voogudest

Voogudest is an Estonian term that means “from the streams.” It is the elative plural form of voog, which can refer to a stream, a flow, or a watercourse. The form voogudest is primarily used in hydrology, ecology, and related fields to indicate water or influence that originates from multiple streams.

From a linguistic perspective, voogudest is formed by taking the plural stem voogud and adding the elative plural suffix -est. The singular elative would be voogust, while voogude is the genitive plural. As such, voogudest is not a separate lexical item but a case-inflected form of the noun voog in the plural.

In practice, voogudest appears in technical and descriptive texts about water systems. It is used to specify sources of water, nutrients, or ecological inputs that enter a body of water from several streams. For example, a hydrological report might state that “lisanduv vesi pärineb voogudest,” meaning that the supplementary water originates from the streams. Another example might describe ecological inputs “voogudest tulevad toitained,” indicating nutrients arriving from streams.

See also in relation to the term voog (stream) and to discussions of Estonian case inflection, particularly the elative case in the plural. Voogudest is most commonly encountered in formal, scientific Estonian rather than everyday language.