kunitsa

Ingrian

Kunitsa.

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian куница (kunica).

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkunit͡sɑ/, [ˈkunit͡s̠]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkunit͡sɑ/, [ˈkunit͡sɑ]
• Rhymes: -unit͡s, -unit͡sɑ
• Hyphenation: ku‧nit‧sa

Noun

kunitsa

1. marten
   • 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by P. I. Maksimov and N. A. Iljin, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun neljättä klaassaa vart (toine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 37:

     Lintuloin ja orav[o]in jälest jahtiijaat öittee kunitsat, horjokat ja soobolit.

     After the birds and squirrels the martens, polecats and sables hunt at night.

Declension

Declension of kunitsa (type 3/kana, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	kunitsa	kunitsat
genitive	kunitsan	kunitsoin
partitive	kunitsaa	kunitsoja
illative	kunitsaa	kunitsoihe
inessive	kunitsaas	kunitsois
elative	kunitsast	kunitsoist
allative	kunitsalle	kunitsoille
adessive	kunitsaal	kunitsoil
ablative	kunitsalt	kunitsoilt
translative	kunitsaks	kunitsoiks
essive	kunitsanna, kunitsaan	kunitsoinna, kunitsoin
exessive1)	kunitsant	kunitsoint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

Synonyms

• (obsolete) näätä

References

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “куница”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 703