едома

Russian

Derived from Finnic, perhaps with an original meaning of “distant or high land”; compare to Karelian edäh (“far away”) + Karelian mua (“land”).

е́дома • (jédoma) f inan (genitive е́домы, nominative plural е́домы, genitive plural е́дом)

(Northern Russia) hillock, hummock, ridge, high riverbank
(Northern Russia, collective) forest wilderness
(Siberia, collective) yedoma (a type of permafrost in the Pleistocene-age with an ice content of 50–90% by volume)
(Siberia) a yedoma terrace or hillock
- 2013, Е. А. Власенко, Загадки и тайны морей и океанов:
  Е́домы представля́ют собо́й небо́льшие возвы́шенности с мелкобугри́стой пове́рхностью.
  Jédomy predstavljájut sobój nebólʹšije vozvýšennosti s melkobugrístoj povérxnostʹju.
  Yedoma terraces are low hills whose surface is covered with small bumps.

Declension of е́дома (inan fem-form hard-stem accent-a)

	singular	plural
nominative	е́дома jédoma	е́домы jédomy
genitive	е́домы jédomy	е́дом jédom
dative	е́доме jédome	е́домам jédomam
accusative	е́дому jédomu	е́домы jédomy
instrumental	е́домой, е́домою jédomoj, jédomoju	е́домами jédomami
prepositional	е́доме jédome	е́домах jédomax

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