aiga

See also: Aiga, áigá, and 'āiga

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Borrowed from Samoan 'āiga (“relative, family”).

aiga (plural aigas)

A Samoan extended family.
A type of bus, typically a modified pickup truck, used by private entrepreneurs in American Samoa.

Regional variants of *aiga*
North Karelian (Viena)	aika
South Karelian (Tver)	aiga

aiga (genitive aijan, partitive aigua)

Tver Karelian declension of aiga (type 4/kala ig-ij gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	aiga	aijat
genitive	aijan	aijoin
partitive	aigua	aigoida
illative	aigah	aigoih
inessive	aijašša	aijoissa
elative	aijašta	aijoista
adessive	aijalla	aijoilla
ablative	aijalda	aijoilda
translative	aijakši	aijoiksi
essive	aigana	aigoina
comitative	aijanke	aijoinke
abessive	aijatta	aijoitta
prolative	aijačči	aijoičči
instructive	—	aijoin

Possessive forms of aiga
1st person	aigani
2nd person	aigaš
3rd person	aigah
^*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

A. V. Punzhina (1994), “aiga”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN

aiga f (plural aigas)

aiga f (oblique plural aigas, nominative singular aiga, nominative plural aigas)