sooja

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sooja (“protection, warm”), borrowed from Proto-Iranian *caHyáH. Cognates include Finnish suoja (“shelter, thaw”) and Estonian soe (“warm”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsoːja/

Noun

sooja (genitive soojan, partitive soojaa)

protection
thaw
- 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 25:
  Kuin ono sooja vesi.
  The water is like thaw.

Declension

Inflection of sooja

	singular	plural
nominative	sooja	soojat
genitive	soojan	soojiin
partitive	soojaa	soojiia
illative	soojaa	soojii
inessive	soojaaz	soojiiz
elative	soojast	soojist
allative	soojalle	soojille
adessive	soojaal	soojiil
ablative	soojalt	soojilt
translative	soojaks	soojiks
essive	soojaan	soojiin

References

Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)‎, page 163