virsu
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old East Slavic *вьрзъ (*vĭrzŭ).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]virsu
- birchbark shoe (shoe made by weaving strips of birchbark, used earlier in Scandinavia and elsewhere in the boreal forest zone)
- bast shoe; one of a pair of lapti (similar shoe made of bast, used chiefly in more temperate regions where bast is readily available)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of virsu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | virsu | virsut | ||
genitive | virsun | virsujen | ||
partitive | virsua | virsuja | ||
illative | virsuun | virsuihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | virsu | virsut | ||
accusative | nom. | virsu | virsut | |
gen. | virsun | |||
genitive | virsun | virsujen | ||
partitive | virsua | virsuja | ||
inessive | virsussa | virsuissa | ||
elative | virsusta | virsuista | ||
illative | virsuun | virsuihin | ||
adessive | virsulla | virsuilla | ||
ablative | virsulta | virsuilta | ||
allative | virsulle | virsuille | ||
essive | virsuna | virsuina | ||
translative | virsuksi | virsuiksi | ||
abessive | virsutta | virsuitta | ||
instructive | — | virsuin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
[edit]- (birchbark shoe): tuohivirsu
- (bast shoe): niinivirsu
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “virsu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04
Anagrams
[edit]Latvian
[edit]Noun
[edit]virsu f
- inflection of virsa:
virsu m
- inflection of virsus: