nʹokka

Karelian
Regional variants of nʹokka
North Karelian
(Viena)		 nʹokka
South Karelian
(Tver)		 nʹokka

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nokka. Cognates include Finnish nokka and Veps nʹok.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈnʲokːɑ/
  • Hyphenation: nʹok‧ka

Noun

nʹokka (genitive nʹokan, partitive nʹokkua)

  1. beak
  2. spout
  3. tip, end
  4. toe (of footwear)
  5. (rare) nose

Declension
Viena Karelian declension of nʹokka (type 5/koira, kk-k gradation)
singular plural
nominative nʹokka nʹokat
genitive nʹokan nʹokkien
partitive nʹokkua nʹokkie
illative nʹokkah nʹokkih
inessive nʹokašša nʹokissa
elative nʹokašta nʹokista
adessive nʹokalla nʹokilla
ablative nʹokalta nʹokilta
translative nʹokakši nʹokiksi
essive nʹokkana nʹokkina
comitative — nʹokineh
abessive nʹokatta nʹokitta
Tver Karelian declension of nʹokka (type 5/koira kk-k gradation)
singular plural
nominative nʹokka nʹokat
genitive nʹokan nʹokin
partitive nʹokkua nʹokkie
illative nʹokkah nʹokkih
inessive nʹokašša nʹokissa
elative nʹokašta nʹokista
adessive nʹokalla nʹokilla
ablative nʹokalda nʹokilda
translative nʹokakši nʹokiksi
essive nʹokkana nʹokkina
comitative nʹokanke nʹokinke
abessive nʹokatta nʹokitta
Possessive forms of nʹokka
1st person nʹokkani
2nd person nʹokkaš
3rd person nʹokkah
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

Synonyms

References
  • A. V. Punzhina (1994) “nʹokka”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
  • Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “ńokka”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎, Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN
  • P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN
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