pūoga

Livonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *poika, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *pojka. Cognate to e.g. Finnish poika, Estonian poeg and Hungarian fiú. The nominative stem is irregular (ˣpȱiga would be expected), but may reflect analogy to the inflection type lēba : partitive leibõ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /puːoɡɑ/

Noun

pūoga

  1. son

Declension

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