virre

Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Derived from whisky by a colloquial formation changing certain /s/ consonant clusters into -rr-. Compare flaska > flarra (bottle) and smaskig > smarrig (yummy, tasty).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²vɪrɛ/

Noun

virre c

  1. (colloquial) (glass of) whiskey
    Synonym: whisky
    att ta sig en virre
    to have a glass of whiskey

Declension

Declension of virre 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative virre virren virrar virrarna
Genitive virres virrens virrars virrarnas

References

  • Per Ledin (2013 March 28) “Glad pårre igen!”, in På svenska (Blog), archived from the original on 26 September 2020

Anagrams

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *verdek.

Pronunciation

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈvirːe/, [ˈvʲirːe]
  • Rhymes: -irːe
  • Hyphenation: vir‧re

Noun

virre

  1. beerwort

Inflection

Declension of virre (type XIV/terve, rt-rr gradation)
singular plural
nominative virre virted
genitive virte virteije, virtei
partitive virrette virteite, virtei
illative virtese, virte virteise
inessive virtez virteiz
elative virtesse virteisse
allative virtele virteile
adessive virtelle virteille
ablative virtelte virteilte
translative virtessi virteissi
*) 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) “virre”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn
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