kojitoin

Karelian
Regional variants of kojitoin
North Karelian
(Viena)		 kojitoin
South Karelian
(Tver)		 kojitoin

Etymology

From koti／kodi (“home”) +‎ -toin. Akin to Finnish koditon and Ingrian koitoin.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkojitoi̯n/
  • Hyphenation: ko‧ji‧toin

Adjective

kojitoin (genitive kojittoman, partitive kojitointa／kojitoinda, comparative kojittomampi／kojittomambi, superlative kojittomin)

  1. homeless

Declension
Viena Karelian declension of kojitoin (type 13/kojitoin, tt-t gradation)
singular plural
nominative kojitoin kojittomat
genitive kojittoman kojittomien
partitive kojitointa kojittomie
illative kojittomah kojittomih
inessive kojittomašša kojittomissa
elative kojittomašta kojittomista
adessive kojittomalla kojittomilla
ablative kojittomalta kojittomilta
translative kojittomakši kojittomiksi
essive kojittomana kojittomina
comitative — kojittomineh
abessive kojittomatta kojittomitta
Tver Karelian declension of kojitoin (type 13/kojitoin, tt-t gradation)
singular plural
nominative kojitoin kojittomat
genitive kojittoman kojittomien
partitive kojitoinda kojittomie
illative kojittomah kojittomih
inessive kojittomašša kojittomissa
elative kojittomašta kojittomista
adessive kojittomalla kojittomilla
ablative kojittomalda kojittomilda
translative kojittomakši kojittomiksi
essive kojittomana kojittomina
comitative kojittomanke kojittominke
abessive kojittomatta kojittomitta
Possessive forms of kojitoin
1st person kojittomani
2nd person kojittomaš
3rd person kojittomah
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

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