mähä

See also: maha, mahā, and māha

Swedish

Etymology

Likely onomatopoeic, imitating the sound of sheep. Compare Danish mæhæ, Norwegian mehe. First attested in 1582.

Noun

mähä n

  1. (colloquial, depreciative) a pushover, fool

Declension

Declension of mähä
nominative genitive
singular indefinite mähä mähäs
definite mähät mähäts
plural indefinite mähän mähäns
definite mähäna mähänas

Further reading

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mäihä.

Pronunciation

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈmæhæ/, [ˈmʲæhʲæ]
  • Rhymes: -æhæ
  • Hyphenation: mä‧hä

Noun

mähä

  1. cambium

Inflection

Declension of mähä (type VIII/päive, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative mähä mähäd
genitive mähä mähije, mähii
partitive mähhä mähiite, mähii
illative mähhäse, mähhä mähiise
inessive mähäz mähiiz
elative mähässe mähiisse
allative mähäle mähiile
adessive mähälle mähiille
ablative mähälte mähiilte
translative mähässi mähiissi
*) 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) “mähä”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn
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