greču

Karelian

Regional variants of greču

North Karelian (Viena)	krečču
South Karelian (Tver)	greču

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian греча (greča).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡret͡ʃu/
• Hyphenation: gre‧ču

Noun

greču (genitive grečun, partitive grečuo)

1. (South Karelian) buckwheat

Declension

Tver Karelian declension of greču (type 1/tyttö no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	greču	grečut
genitive	grečun	grečuloin
partitive	grečuo	grečuloida
illative	grečuh	grečuloih
inessive	grečušša	grečuloissa
elative	grečušta	grečuloista
adessive	grečulla	grečuloilla
ablative	grečulda	grečuloilda
translative	grečukši	grečuloiksi
essive	grečuna	grečuloina
comitative	grečunke	grečuloinke
abessive	grečutta	grečuloitta

Possessive forms of greču
1st person	grečuni
2nd person	grečuš
3rd person	grečuh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “greču”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN