Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/ämmä

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 This Proto-Finnic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Finnic

Etymology

Cognate with Proto-Samic , whence Northern Sami ebmui. Probably originates from baby talk.

Noun

*ämmä[1]

  1. female relative
  2. old woman
    Synonym: *akka

Inflection

Inflection of *ämmä
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
singular plural
nominative *ämmä *ämmät
accusative *ämmän *ämmät
genitive *ämmän *ämmäden
*ämmeiden
partitive *ämmädä *ämmeidä
inessive *ämmässä
*ämmähnä 		*ämmeissä
*ämmeihnä
elative *ämmästä *ämmeistä
illative *ämmähen *ämmeihen
adessive *ämmällä *ämmeillä
ablative *ämmältä *ämmeiltä
allative *ämmälen
*ämmälek 		*ämmeilen
*ämmeilek
essive *ämmänä *ämmeinä
translative *ämmäksi *ämmeiksi
instructive *ämmän *ämmein
comitative *ämmänek *ämmeinek
abessive *ämmättä *ämmeittä

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Estonian: ämm
  • Finnish: ämmä
  • Ingrian: ämmä
  • Karelian:
    • North Karelian: ämmä (dialectal)
    • South Karelian: ämmä (dialectal)
  • Livonian: ǟma
  • Võro: ämm
  • Votic: ämme

References

  1. ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*ämmä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎ (in Finnish)

Further reading

  • “ämm”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
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