muailma

Karelian

Regional variants of muailma

North Karelian (Viena)	muailma, muajilma
South Karelian (Tver)	muailma

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *maailma, equivalent to mua (“earth”) +‎ ilma (“air”). Cognates include Finnish maailma and Veps mail'm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuɑ̯ˌilmɑ/
• Hyphenation: mua‧il‧ma

Noun

muailma (genitive muailman, partitive muailmua)

1. world
2. (South Karelian) Synonym of muakunda (“country”)

Declension

Viena Karelian declension of muailma (type 4/kala, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	muailma	muailmat
genitive	muailman	muailmojen
partitive	muailmua	muailmoja
illative	muailmah	muailmoih
inessive	muailmašša	muailmoissa
elative	muailmašta	muailmoista
adessive	muailmalla	muailmoilla
ablative	muailmalta	muailmoilta
translative	muailmakši	muailmoiksi
essive	muailmana	muailmoina
comitative	—	muailmoineh
abessive	muailmatta	muailmoitta

Tver Karelian declension of muailma (type 4/kala no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	muailma	muailmat
genitive	muailman	muailmoin
partitive	muailmua	muailmoida
illative	muailmah	muailmoih
inessive	muailmašša	muailmoissa
elative	muailmašta	muailmoista
adessive	muailmalla	muailmoilla
ablative	muailmalda	muailmoilda
translative	muailmakši	muailmoiksi
essive	muailmana	muailmoina
comitative	muailmanke	muailmoinke
abessive	muailmatta	muailmoitta

Possessive forms of muailma
1st person	muailmani
2nd person	muailmaš
3rd person	muailmah
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

Synonyms

• (North Karelian, dialectal) ilma, (South Karelian) ilma

References

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “muailma”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “muailma”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN