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boabo

language: Livvi

part of speech: Noun

phonetic variants: buabo (New written Livvic, Vedlozero, Nekkula, Syamozero); biabo (Kondushi); baaboi (Tulmozero); baabo (Vidlitsa)

Speaker
Michurova, Nadezhda V.
1985 year of birth
birth place: Olonets, Olonecky Destrict, Republic of Karelia

1 meaning

  • Russian: бабушка
  • English: grandmother; grandma
concept: grandmother

translation

Veps: bab; baba; baboi; babuško

Ludian: buab; buabo

Karelian Proper: babba; babi; babo; biabo; boabo; buaba; buabo; ämmö

dialects of usage: Vedlozero

Examples (4)

the best an excellent a good a bad

1. A tuatto kodvazen istui, sit boabo kučui murginal. (Heroilan Glimoi)
2. – A kuzbo on se sinun boabo, kudoan Ivan Medvedin murendi?
– А где же эта твоя бабушка, которую Иван Медведин искалечил? (Ivan Medvedin)
3. – Boabo on, – sanow neidine, – nelländes mökis.
– Бабушка, – говорит девушка, – в четвертой избушке. (Ivan Medvedin)
4. Meijän boabo mustelou.
Наша бабушка вспоминает. (Ennen pyhinpäivin)

All examples

wordforms (2)

boabo

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