sava

sava

1. informal form of ça va

Borrowed from Old Norse sauðr, from Proto-Germanic *sauþaz.

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /sava/, [sə.va]

sava (plural savat)

1. sheep

• savaaraq - lamb
• savaasaq - goat
• savaasaaraq - kid (young goat)

sav (“acid”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃɒvɒ]
• Hyphenation: sa‧va

sava

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of sav

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑʋɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑʋɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑʋɑ/, [ˈʃɑʋɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑʋɑ
• Hyphenation: sa‧va

sava

1. alternative form of sova

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “сава”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 681
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 509

sava

1. inflection of savs:
   1. genitive singular masculine
   2. nominative singular feminine

sava (present savar, preterite savade, supine savat, imperative sava)

1. to be in sap (for the juice in plants to rise, to ascend)

   tiden nu är inne, då björken safvar

   the time is right, when the birch is in sap

2. to strip the sap from trees (usually birches)

   ett träd, som vårtiden safvas

   a tree, which in the springtime is stripped of sap

   Har han bläckat och safvat i min vackra fimmelstång. – Fimmelstång? – Ja, den där björken skulle bli en fimmelstång.

   Has he cut and stripped sap in my beautiful thill. – Thill? – Yes, that birch should have become a thill.

• sav
• savig

• Vasa, avas, vasa

sava

1. bag; pouch; sack