Uralic Languages Word-Association Game

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Re: Uralic Languages Word-Association Game

Postby h34 » 2020-10-25, 22:28

(kv-kpv) оз / oz
negative verb, present tense, 3rd person (sg=pl)

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Re: Uralic Languages Word-Association Game

Postby Naava » 2020-10-26, 10:21

(fi) ällös
the second-person singular optative present form of the negative verb

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Re: Uralic Languages Word-Association Game

Postby Linguaphile » 2020-10-26, 13:51

(vep) ala
the second-person singular imperative present form of the negative verb

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Re: Uralic Languages Word-Association Game

Postby Naava » 2020-10-26, 15:18

(fi) alava
low-lying

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Re: Uralic Languages Word-Association Game

Postby h34 » 2020-10-28, 15:47

(myv) алов / alov
under
(lative case, movement toward, in the direction of)

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Re: Uralic Languages Word-Association Game

Postby Linguaphile » 2020-10-28, 17:07

(et) alluv
subordinate, inferior

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Re: Uralic Languages Word-Association Game

Postby h34 » 2020-10-29, 16:38

(myv) алдо / aldo
from beneath, from below (ablative)

Лембе коштось кепети алдо.
Warm air (/The warm air) rises from below.

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Re: Uralic Languages Word-Association Game

Postby awrui » 2020-10-29, 18:33

(smi-sme) alde
on top of

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Re: Uralic Languages Word-Association Game

Postby Linguaphile » 2020-10-29, 18:55

(smi-sme) vuolde
(from) under, underneath

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Re: Uralic Languages Word-Association Game

Postby h34 » 2020-10-30, 14:59

(kv-kpv) улын / ulyn
under (position; ул- + inessive suffix -ын)

ва улын 'under water'

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Re: Uralic Languages Word-Association Game

Postby Linguaphile » 2020-10-30, 15:17

(vep) ülähän
above, overhead

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Re: Uralic Languages Word-Association Game

Postby h34 » 2020-11-01, 8:40

(fi) yläilmakehä
stratosphere

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Re: Uralic Languages Word-Association Game

Postby Linguaphile » 2020-11-01, 18:04

(et) üliõpilane
university student

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Re: Uralic Languages Word-Association Game

Postby Naava » 2020-11-01, 19:37

(fi) ylioppilaskirjoitukset
matriculation examination

yli = over
oppilas = pupil
> ylioppilas = high school graduate who has passed the matriculation exams; also university student (although less common)
kirjoittaa = to write
-us (stem -ukse-) = forms nouns from verbs, describing an action or event
-t = plural

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Re: Uralic Languages Word-Association Game

Postby Linguaphile » 2020-11-01, 19:53

(et) üliõpilasomavalitsus
(university) student council, student government

üli = over, higher, very
õpilane = pupil (genitive õpilase, in compounds õpilas-)
:arrow: üliõpilane = university student

oma = own
valitsema = administer, govern
-us = forms nouns from verbs
valitsus = government
:arrow: omavalitsus = self-government

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Re: Uralic Languages Word-Association Game

Postby Naava » 2022-04-04, 12:43

(fi) oppilaitos
educational institution (anything from elementary school to university)

oppi = doctrine; stydy [of], -logy; training, education, learning (from oppia = to learn)
laitos = institution, faculty, facility, department (coined by Reinhold von Becker, from laittaa = to put, to place, to set
-os = forms nouns denoting the result of the action of a verb)

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Re: Uralic Languages Word-Association Game

Postby Linguaphile » 2022-04-04, 13:17

(et) laitus
blame, censure, disapproval

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Re: Uralic Languages Word-Association Game

Postby h34 » 2022-04-04, 18:57

(mdf) ляйста / ljajsta
out of a river

ляй / ljaj = river
-ста / -sta = elative suffix

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Re: Uralic Languages Word-Association Game

Postby Naava » 2022-04-04, 19:03

(fi) vedenneito
water nymph

vesi (vede-) = water
-n = genitive
neito = maid, maiden (unmarried young girl)
(cf. merenneito = mermaid)

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Re: Uralic Languages Word-Association Game

Postby Linguaphile » 2022-04-04, 19:38

(et) hiieallikas
sacred spring

hiis = sacred site, sacred grove
hiie = genitive of hiis
allikas = spring, source


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