kukuruza

See also: kukurūza and kukurūzā

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From kukuruz (“corn, maize”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kukurǔːza/
• Hyphenation: ku‧ku‧ru‧za

Noun

kukurúza f (Cyrillic spelling кукуру́за)

1. cornbread

Declension

Declension of kukuruza

	singular	plural
nominative	kukuruza	kukuruze
genitive	kukuruze	kukuruza
dative	kukuruzi	kukuruzama
accusative	kukuruzu	kukuruze
vocative	kukuruzo	kukuruze
locative	kukuruzi	kukuruzama
instrumental	kukuruzom	kukuruzama

Descendants

• →? Albanian: kukurec
  • → Greek: κοκορέτσι (kokorétsi)
    • → English: kokoretsi

Votic

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian кукуруза (kukuruza).

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivčülä) IPA^(key): /kukuˈruzɑ/, [kukuˈruzɑ], /ˈkukuruzɑ/, [ˈkukuˌruzɑ]
• Rhymes: -uzɑ
• Hyphenation: ku‧ku‧ru‧za

Noun

kukuruza

1. maize, corn

Inflection

Declension of kukuruza (type V/poikõ, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	kukuruza	kukuruzad
genitive	kukuruza	kukuruzijõ
partitive	kukuruzza	kukuruziit
illative	kukuruzasõ, kukuruzza	kukuruziisõ
inessive	kukuruzaz	kukuruziiz
elative	kukuruzass	kukuruziiss
allative	kukuruzallõ	kukuruziillõ
adessive	kukuruzall	kukuruziill
ablative	kukuruzalt	kukuruziilt
translative	kukuruzassi	kukuruziissi
*) 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. For dialectal differences between case endings, see Appendix:Votic dialects.

References

• Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “kukuruza”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Tallinn