vepsäläine

Livvi

Etymology

From vepsä (“Veps”) +‎ -läine. Akin to Finnish vepsäläinen and Veps vepsläne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋepsæˌlæi̯ne/
• Hyphenation: vep‧sä‧läi‧ne

Noun

vepsäläine (genitive vepsäläizen, partitive vepsäläisty)

1. Vepsian (person)

Synonyms

• (outdated) ojattilaine

References

• N. Gilojeva, S. Rudakova (2009) Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu [Beginners' course of Karelian language's Livvi dialect]‎^[1] (in Livvi), Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 13
• Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 323