puuvillõ

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Votic

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Etymology

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puu +‎ villõ. Calque of Ingrian puuvilla, Estonian puuvill or Finnish puuvilla, all ultimately themselves calqued from German Baumwolle.

Pronunciation

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  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈpuːˌvilːɑ/, [ˈpuːˌvʲiɫːə̠]
  • Rhymes: -ilːɑ
  • Hyphenation: puu‧vil‧lõ

Noun

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puuvillõ

  1. cotton

Inflection

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Declension of villõ (type III/jalkõ, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative puuvillõ puuvillõd
genitive puuvilla puuvillojõ, puuvilloi
partitive puuvilla puuvilloitõ, puuvilloi
illative puuvillasõ, puuvilla puuvilloisõ
inessive puuvillõz puuvilloiz
elative puuvillõssõ puuvilloissõ
allative puuvillõlõ puuvilloilõ
adessive puuvillõllõ puuvilloillõ
ablative puuvillõltõ puuvilloiltõ
translative puuvillõssi puuvilloissi
*) 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

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  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “puuvilla”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn