purgu
Karelian
| North Karelian (Viena) |
purku |
|---|---|
| South Karelian (Tver) |
purgu |
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *purku. Cognates include Finnish purku and Veps purg.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpurɡu/
- Hyphenation: pur‧gu
Noun
purgu (genitive purrun, partitive purguo)
Declension
| Tver Karelian declension of purgu (type 1/tyttö rg-rr gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | purgu | purrut | |
| genitive | purrun | purguloin | |
| partitive | purguo | purguloida | |
| illative | purguh | purguloih | |
| inessive | purrušša | purguloissa | |
| elative | purrušta | purguloista | |
| adessive | purrulla | purguloilla | |
| ablative | purrulda | purguloilda | |
| translative | purrukši | purguloiksi | |
| essive | purguna | purguloina | |
| comitative | purrunke | purguloinke | |
| abessive | purrutta | purguloitta | |
| Possessive forms of purgu | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1st person | purguni | |
| 2nd person | purguš | |
| 3rd person | purguh | |
| *) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses. | ||
References
- A. V. Punzhina (1994) “purgu”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN