sobu
Livvi
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *sopa (“clothes”). Cognates include Finnish sopa and Estonian sõba.
The semantic shift "clothes" > "agreement" is comparable to the Finnish derivation of sopimus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsobu/
- Hyphenation: so‧bu
- Rhymes: -obu
Noun
sobu (genitive sovun, partitive sobuu)
- agreement
Derived terms
(compounds):
- vokalisobu
References
- Tatjana Boiko (2019), “sobu”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN