zmeja

Karelian

Regional variants of zmeja
North Karelian
(Viena) 		smeja
South Karelian
(Tver) 		zmeja

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian змея (zmeja).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzmejɑ/
  • Hyphenation: zme‧ja

Noun

zmeja (genitive zmejan, partitive zmejua)

  1. (South Karelian) synonym of mado (“snake”)

Declension

Tver Karelian declension of zmeja (type 4/kala no gradation)
singular plural
nominative zmeja zmejat
genitive zmejan zmejoin
partitive zmejua zmejoida
illative zmejah zmejoih
inessive zmejašša zmejoissa
elative zmejašta zmejoista
adessive zmejalla zmejoilla
ablative zmejalda zmejoilda
translative zmejakši zmejoiksi
essive zmejana zmejoina
comitative zmejanke zmejoinke
abessive zmejatta zmejoitta
Possessive forms of zmeja
1st person zmejani
2nd person zmejaš
3rd person zmejah
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

  • A. V. Punzhina (1994) “zmeja”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
  • Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “smeja”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎[1], Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN
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