mähä
Swedish
Etymology
Likely onomatopoeic, imitating the sound of sheep. Compare Danish mæhæ, Norwegian mehe. First attested in 1582.
Declension
| Declension of mähä | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | mähä | mähät | mähän | mähäna |
| Genitive | mähäs | mähäts | mähäns | mähänas |
Further reading
- mähä in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- mähä in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- mähä in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- mähä in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
Votic
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *mäihä.
Pronunciation
- (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈmæhæ/, [ˈmʲæhʲæ]
- Rhymes: -æhæ
- Hyphenation: mä‧hä
Inflection
| Declension of mähä (type VIII/päive, no gradation) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | mähä | mähäd |
| genitive | mähä | mähije, mähii |
| partitive | mähhä | mähiite, mähii |
| illative | mähhäse, mähhä | mähiise |
| inessive | mähäz | mähiiz |
| elative | mähässe | mähiisse |
| allative | mähäle | mähiile |
| adessive | mähälle | mähiille |
| ablative | mähälte | mähiilte |
| translative | mähässi | mähiissi |
| *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive. | ||
References
- Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “mähä”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn
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