maahu
Votic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Russian (про)мах ((pro)max).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Luutsa, Liivčülä) IPA(key): /ˈmɑːhu/, [ˈmɑːhu], /ˈmɑːxu/, [ˈmɑːxu]
- Rhymes: -ɑːhu, -ɑːxu
- Hyphenation: maa‧hu
Noun
[edit]maahu
- mistake, blunder
- anta maahua ― to err, blunder, make a mistake / make mistakes
- 2010, Heinike Heinsoo, Mā ja pūd lēväd, meid eb lē: The subject and the predicate in Votic (Linguistica Uralica, Supplementary Series; 4) (overall work in English), Tallinn: Teaduste Akadeemia Kirjastus, →ISBN, page 45:
- e̮pe̮n neľľäld jalgalt kompasuʙ a inemin se̮nald annab māhu
- [õpõn nelʹlʹelte jalgõltõ kompõsub a inemin sõnaltõ annab maahu(a)]
- a horse may stumble though he has four legs, yet man errs though he has words
- (literally, “a horse stumbles from four legs, yet man makes mistakes with words”)
Inflection
[edit]| Declension of maahu (type II/võrkko, no gradation) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | maahu | maahud |
| genitive | maahu | maahujõ |
| partitive | maahua | maahuit |
| illative | maahusõ, maahu | maahuisõ |
| inessive | maahuz | maahuiz |
| elative | maahuss | maahuiss |
| allative | maahullõ | maahuillõ |
| adessive | maahull | maahuill |
| ablative | maahult | maahuilt |
| translative | maahussi | maahuissi |
| *) 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. | ||