apinikkõ

Votic

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from apinikka according to the principles established by Wiktionary's editor community as described at Wiktionary:Votic entry guidelines or recent spelling standards of the language.

Etymology

api (“help, aid”) +‎ -nikkõ

Pronunciation

(Luutsa, Liivčülä) IPA^(key): /ˈɑpiˌnikːɑ/, [ˈɑpʲiˌnʲikːə̠]
(Central Votic) IPA^(key): /ˈɑpiˌnikːɑ/, [ˈɑpiˌnikːɑ]
(Eastern Votic) IPA^(key): /ˈɑpiˌnikːɑ/, [ˈɑpiˌnikːɑ]
Rhymes: -ikːɑ
Hyphenation: a‧pi‧nik‧kõ

Noun

apinikkõ

helper, assistant

Inflection

Declension of apinikkõ (type III/jalkõ, kk-k gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	apinikkõ	apinikad
genitive	apinika	apinikkojõ
partitive	apinikka	apinikkoit
illative	apinikka, apinikkasõ	apinikkoisõ
inessive	apinikaz	apinikkoiz
elative	apinikass	apinikkoiss
allative	apinikallõ	apinikkoillõ
adessive	apinikall	apinikkoill
ablative	apinikalt	apinikkoilt
translative	apinikassi	apinikkoissi
'Standardized' inflection based on the Vaipooli dialects; see WT:AVOT. For dialectal differences between case endings, see Appendix:Votic dialects. ^) 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.

References

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