virre
Swedish
Alternative forms
- wirre
Etymology
Derived from whisky by a colloquial formation changing certain /s/ consonant clusters into -rr-. Compare flaska > flarra (“bottle”) and smaskig > smarrig (“yummy, tasty”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²vɪrɛ/
Noun
virre c
- (colloquial) (glass of) whiskey
- att ta sig en virre
- to have a glass of whiskey
- Synonym: whisky
Declension
| Declension of virre | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | virre | virren | virrar | virrarna |
| Genitive | virres | virrens | virrars | virrarnas |
References
- Per Ledin (28 March 2013), “Glad pårre igen!”, in På svenska (Blog), archived from the original on 2020-09-26, retrieved 27 February 2020
Anagrams
- revir, river
Votic
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *verdek.
Pronunciation
- (Luuditsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈvirːe/, [ˈvirːe]
- Rhymes: -irːe
- Hyphenation: vir‧re
Noun
virre
- beerwort
Inflection
| Declension of virre (type XIV/terve, rt-rr gradation) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | virre | virted |
| genitive | virte | virteije, virtei |
| partitive | virrette | virteite, virtei |
| illative | virte, virtese | virteije, virteise |
| inessive | virtez | virteiz |
| elative | virtesse | virteisse |
| allative | virtele | virteile |
| adessive | virtelle | virteille |
| ablative | virtelte | virteilte |
| translative | virtessi | virteissi |
| *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive. | ||
References
- V. Hallap, E. Adler, S. Grünberg, M. Leppik (2012), “virre”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2 edition, Tallinn