maonkotain

Ingrian

FWOTD – 4 June 2024

Maonkotaiset (1).

Maonkotain (2).

From maon (“of a worm”) +‎ *kota (“house”) +‎ -in.

The second element is a reflex of Proto-Finnic *kota (“tent”), which was lost in Ingrian as a separate word.

maonkotain

shell
- 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. J. Molotsova, Loonnontiito oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 28:
  Hää meren pohjaas etsii tyhjän maonkottaisen, ja pistää sinne oman vatsaan.
  It searches for an empty shell on the bottom of the sea, and it sticks its own belly in it.
snail
- 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. J. Molotsova, Loonnontiito oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 25:
  Maaelokkaist ilman selkäpiitä ovat: matokkaiset, sikiäiset, hämöläiset, maonkottaiset, sliizat ja ussiat toiset elokkaat.
  Land animals without a backbone are: worms, insects, spiders, snails, slugs and many other animals.

Declension of maonkotain (type 1/kärpäin, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	maonkotain	maonkotaiset
genitive	maonkotaisen	maonkotaisiin
partitive	maonkotaista, maonkotaist	maonkotaisia
illative	maonkotaisee	maonkotaisii
inessive	maonkotaisees	maonkotaisiis
elative	maonkotaisest	maonkotaisist
allative	maonkotaiselle	maonkotaisille
adessive	maonkotaiseel	maonkotaisiil
ablative	maonkotaiselt	maonkotaisilt
translative	maonkotaiseks	maonkotaisiks
essive	maonkotaisenna, maonkotaiseen	maonkotaisinna, maonkotaisiin
exessive¹⁾	maonkotaisent	maonkotaisint
¹⁾ obsolete ^) the accusative* corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) ^) the comitative** is formed by adding the suffix -ka^? or -kä^? to the genitive.

Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 296