meččä

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

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meccä. Cognates include Finnish metsä and Estonian mets.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈmet͡ʃːæ/
  • Hyphenation: meč‧čä

Noun

meččä (genitive mečän, partitive meččyä or meččiä)

  1. forest

Declension
Viena Karelian declension of meččä (type 5/koira, čč-č gradation)
singular plural
nominative meččä mečät
genitive mečän meččien
partitive meččyä meččie
illative meččäh meččih
inessive mečäššä mečissä
elative mečäštä mečistä
adessive mečällä mečillä
ablative mečältä mečiltä
translative mečäkši mečiksi
essive meččänä meččinä
comitative — mečineh
abessive mečättä mečittä
Tver Karelian declension of meččä (type 5/koira čč-č gradation)
singular plural
nominative meččä mečät
genitive mečän mečin
partitive meččiä meččie
illative meččäh meččih
inessive mečäššä mečissä
elative mečäštä mečistä
adessive mečällä mečillä
ablative mečäldä mečildä
translative mečäkši mečiksi
essive meččänä meččinä
comitative mečänke mečinke
abessive mečättä mečittä
Possessive forms of meččä
1st person meččäni
2nd person meččäš
3rd person meččäh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References
  • A. V. Punzhina (1994) “meččä”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
  • P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) “лес”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN
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