ajaja

ajaja (plural ajajas)

1. A traditional Inuit song accompanied by dancing and drumming.

From ajama +‎ -ja.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑjɑjɑ/, [ˈɑ̈jɑ̈jɑ̈]
• Rhymes: -ɑjɑjɑ
• Hyphenation: a‧ja‧ja

ajaja (genitive ajaja, partitive ajajat)

1. racer
2. driver, drover

Declension of ajaja (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		ajaja	ajajad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	ajaja
genitive			ajajate
partitive		ajajat	ajajaid
illative		ajajasse	ajajatesse ajajaisse
inessive		ajajas	ajajates ajajais
elative		ajajast	ajajatest ajajaist
allative		ajajale	ajajatele ajajaile
adessive		ajajal	ajajatel ajajail
ablative		ajajalt	ajajatelt ajajailt
translative		ajajaks	ajajateks ajajaiks
terminative		ajajani	ajajateni
essive		ajajana	ajajatena
abessive		ajajata	ajajateta
comitative		ajajaga	ajajatega

• ajaja in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “ajaja”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

• “ajaja”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “ajaja”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• ajaja in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

From Proto-Finnic *ajaja. Equivalent to ajaa (“to drive”) +‎ -ja.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑjɑjɑ/, [ˈɑ̝jɑ̝jɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑjɑjɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): aja‧ja

ajaja

1. driver
2. rider (of a bicycle, motorcycle, etc.)

• “ajaja”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

From aijaa (“to drive”) +‎ -ja. Akin to Finnish ajaja and Estonian ajaja.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈɑjɑjɑ/, [ˈɑjɑi̯]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈɑjɑjɑ/, [ˈɑjɑjɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑjɑi̯, -ɑjɑjɑ
• Hyphenation: a‧ja‧ja

ajaja

1. rider, driver
   • 2008, Сойкинский Край‎^[2], number 7, page 9:

     Ajaja katsoi Ivoin jalkkaa ja saoi, jot pittää suuree polnitsaa.

     The driver looked at Ivoi's leg and said that they had to go to a big hospital.

Declension of ajaja (type 3/koira, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	ajaja	ajajat
genitive	ajajan	ajajiin
partitive	ajajaa	ajajia
illative	ajajaa	ajajii
inessive	ajajaas	ajajiis
elative	ajajast	ajajist
allative	ajajalle	ajajille
adessive	ajajaal	ajajiil
ablative	ajajalt	ajajilt
translative	ajajaks	ajajiks
essive	ajajanna, ajajaan	ajajinna, ajajiin
exessive1)	ajajant	ajajint
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.

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ajaja

1. command, order