muailma

Karelian
Regional variants of muailma
North Karelian
(Viena)		 muailma, muajilma
South Karelian
(Tver)		 muailma

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *maailma, equivalent to mua (“earth”) +‎ ilma (“air”). Cognates include Finnish maailma and Veps mail'm.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈmuɑ̯ˌilmɑ/
  • Hyphenation: mua‧il‧ma

Noun

muailma (genitive muailman, partitive muailmua)

  1. world
  2. (South Karelian) Synonym of muakunda (“country”)

Declension
Viena Karelian declension of muailma (type 4/kala, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative muailma muailmat
genitive muailman muailmojen
partitive muailmua muailmoja
illative muailmah muailmoih
inessive muailmašša muailmoissa
elative muailmašta muailmoista
adessive muailmalla muailmoilla
ablative muailmalta muailmoilta
translative muailmakši muailmoiksi
essive muailmana muailmoina
comitative — muailmoineh
abessive muailmatta muailmoitta
Tver Karelian declension of muailma (type 4/kala no gradation)
singular plural
nominative muailma muailmat
genitive muailman muailmoin
partitive muailmua muailmoida
illative muailmah muailmoih
inessive muailmašša muailmoissa
elative muailmašta muailmoista
adessive muailmalla muailmoilla
ablative muailmalda muailmoilda
translative muailmakši muailmoiksi
essive muailmana muailmoina
comitative muailmanke muailmoinke
abessive muailmatta muailmoitta
Possessive forms of muailma
1st person muailmani
2nd person muailmaš
3rd person muailmah
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

Synonyms
  • (North Karelian, dialectal) ilma, (South Karelian) ilma

References
  • A. V. Punzhina (1994) “muailma”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
  • P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “muailma”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN
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