minʹnʹõ

Votic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *minijä.

Pronunciation
  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈmiɲːɑ/, [ˈmʲiɲːə̠]
  • Rhymes: -iɲːɑ
  • Hyphenation: minʹ‧nʹõ

Noun

minʹnʹõ

  1. sister-in-law (especially the wife of one's brother or brother-in-law)

Inflection
Declension of minʹnʹõ (type III/jalkõ, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative minʹnʹõ minʹnʹõd
genitive minʹnʹa minʹnʹojõ, minʹnʹoi
partitive minʹnʹa minʹnʹoitõ, minʹnʹoi
illative minʹnʹasõ, minʹnʹa minʹnʹoisõ
inessive minʹnʹõz minʹnʹoiz
elative minʹnʹõssõ minʹnʹoissõ
allative minʹnʹõlõ minʹnʹoilõ
adessive minʹnʹõllõ minʹnʹoillõ
ablative minʹnʹõltõ minʹnʹoiltõ
translative minʹnʹõssi minʹnʹoissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive.
***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References
  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “mind́a”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn
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