nʹaba
Livvi
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *napa. Cognates include Finnish napa and Estonian naba.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnʲɑbɑ/
- Hyphenation: nʹa‧ba
- Rhymes: -ɑbɑ
Noun
nʹaba (genitive nʹavan, partitive nʹabua)
- navel
- pole
- rhizome
References
- Olga Žarinova (2012) Pagizemmo Karjalakse [Let's speak Karelian], St Petersburg, →ISBN, page 11
- Tatjana Boiko (2019), “nʹaba”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN