vilʹlʹu

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vilja. Cognates include Finnish vilja and Estonian vili.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋilʲːu/
  • Hyphenation: vilʹ‧lʹu
  • Rhymes: -ilʲːu

Noun

vilʹlʹu (genitive vilʹlʹan, partitive vilʹlʹua)

  1. bread
  2. grain, cereal

References

  • Olga Žarinova (2012) Pagizemmo Karjalakse [Let's speak Karelian], St Petersburg, →ISBN, page 11
  • Tatjana Boiko (2019) “vilʹlʹu”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN
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