mähä

See also: maha, mahā, and māha

Swedish

Noun

mähä n

  1. (colloquial, depreciative) a pushover, fool

Declension

Declension of mähä 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mähä mähät mähän mähäna
Genitive mähäs mähäts mähäns mähänas

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mäihä.

Pronunciation

  • (Luuditsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈmæhæ/, [ˈmæhæ]
  • Rhymes: -æhæ
  • Hyphenation: mä‧hä

Noun

mähä

  1. cambium

Inflection

Declension of mähä (type VIII/päive, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative mähä mähäd
genitive mähä mähije, mähi
partitive mähhä mähite, mähi
illative mähhä, mähhäse mähije, mähise
inessive mähäz mähiz
elative mähässe mähisse
allative mähäle mähile
adessive mähälle mähille
ablative mähälte mähilte
translative mähässi mähissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative or the genitive.
***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

  • V. Hallap, E. Adler, S. Grünberg, M. Leppik (2012), mähä”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2 edition, Tallinn
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