pǟvaīe
Livonian
Etymology
From pǟva (“day”) + īe (“night”). Perhaps a calque of Latvian diennakts (diena (“day”) + nakts (“night”)), cf. Estonian ööpäev (öö (“night”) + päev (“day”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpæːvɑˌiːe/, [ˈpæːvɑˌiˑe̯]
Noun
pǟvaīe
- day (a period of 24 hours)
- Valda Šuvcāne, Ieva Ernštreite (1999, 2005), Latvian-Livonian-English Phrase Book, Eraksti, →ISBN
- diennakts – pǟvaīe – twenty-four hours
- twenty-four hours – twenty-four hours – twenty-four hours
- diennakts – pǟvaīe – twenty-four hours
- Valda Šuvcāne, Ieva Ernštreite (1999, 2005), Latvian-Livonian-English Phrase Book, Eraksti, →ISBN
Declension
| singular (ikšlu’g) | plural (pǟgiņlu’g) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (nominatīv) | pǟvaīe | pǟvaīed |
| genitive (genitīv) | pǟvaīe | pǟvaīed |
| partitive (partitīv) | pǟvaīedõ | pǟvaēḑi |
| dative (datīv) | pǟvaīen | pǟvaīedõn |
| instrumental (instrumentāl) | pǟvaīekõks | pǟvaīedkõks |
| illative (illatīv) | pǟvaī’ezõ | pǟvaē’ži |
| inessive (inesīv) | pǟvaīesõ | pǟvaēši |
| elative (elatīv) | pǟvaīestõ | pǟvaēšti |