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