kuorʹoi

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *koorëh. Cognates include Finnish kuore and Veps koreh.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkuo̯rʲoi̯/
  • Hyphenation: kuo‧rʹoi
  • Rhymes: -uo̯rʲoi̯

Noun

kuorʹoi (genitive kuorʹoin, partitive kuorʹoidu)

  1. smelt (fish of the family Osmeridae)

References
  • Olga Žarinova (2012) Pagizemmo Karjalakse [Let's speak Karelian], St Petersburg, →ISBN, page 11
  • Tatjana Boiko (2019) “kuorʹoi”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN
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