vasikaliha
Estonian
Etymology
From vasikas (“calf”) + liha (“meat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɑsikɑˌlihɑ/, [ˈvɑsʲikˑɑˌlʲiɦɑ]
- Rhymes: -ihɑ
- Hyphenation: va‧si‧ka‧li‧ha
Noun
vasikaliha (genitive vasikaliha, partitive vasikaliha)
- veal (the meat of slaughtered young domestic cattle as food)
Declension
| Declension of vasikaliha (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | vasikaliha | — | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | vasikaliha | ||
| genitive | — | ||
| partitive | vasikaliha | — | |
| illative | vasikalihha vasikalihasse |
— | |
| inessive | vasikalihas | — | |
| elative | vasikalihast | — | |
| allative | vasikalihale | — | |
| adessive | vasikalihal | — | |
| ablative | vasikalihalt | — | |
| translative | vasikalihaks | — | |
| terminative | vasikalihani | — | |
| essive | vasikalihana | — | |
| abessive | vasikalihata | — | |
| comitative | vasikalihaga | — | |
References
- vasikaliha in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- “vasikaliha”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009