adru

Estonian

Etymology

Unknown. Compare Finnish haura (“pondweed”), dialectal hatru, which may or may not have been borrowed from Estonian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑd̥ru/, [ˈɑd̥ru]
• Rhymes: -ɑdru
• Hyphenation: ad‧ru

Noun

adru (genitive adru, partitive adrut)

1. seaweed

Declension

Declension of adru (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		adru	adrud
accusative	nom.
	gen.	adru
genitive			adrude
partitive		adrut	adrusid
illative		adrusse	adrudesse
inessive		adrus	adrudes
elative		adrust	adrudest
allative		adrule	adrudele
adessive		adrul	adrudel
ablative		adrult	adrudelt
translative		adruks	adrudeks
terminative		adruni	adrudeni
essive		adruna	adrudena
abessive		adruta	adrudeta
comitative		adruga	adrudega

Derived terms

• adrune

 

Compounds

• lehtadru
• mariadru
• pirnadru
• põisadru

 

• adrujada
• adrupeenar
• adruvall

 

References

• adru in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “adru”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *atra (compare Estonian ader, Finnish aura), from a Germanic language (compare Old Norse arðr), from Proto-Germanic *arþrą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃trom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑdru/
• Hyphenation: ad‧ru
• Rhymes: -u

Noun

adru

1. ard
2. plough, plow

Declension

Declension of adru (Type 3/jalgu, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	adru	adrat
genitive	adran	adroin
partitive	adrua	adroi
illative	adrah	adroih
inessive	adras	adrois
elative	adraspäi	adroispäi
allative	adrale	adroile
adessive	adral	adroil
ablative	adralpäi	adroilpäi
translative	adrakse	adroikse
essive	adrannu	adroinnu
abessive	adrattah	adroittah
comitative	adranke	adroinke
instructive		adroin
prolative	adrači

References

• Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 12