Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/aigasta-aika
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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
From *aigasta (“from time”) + *aika (“time”).
Noun
*aigasta-aika
Inflection
Inflection of *aigasta-aika
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *aigasta-aika | *aigasta-aigat | |
| accusative | *aigasta-aigan | *aigasta-aigat | |
| genitive | *aigasta-aigan | *aigasta-aikadën *aigasta-aikoidën | |
| partitive | *aigasta-aikada | *aigasta-aikoida | |
| inessive | *aigasta-aigassa *aigasta-aigahna |
*aigasta-aigoissa *aigasta-aigoihna | |
| elative | *aigasta-aigasta | *aigasta-aigoista | |
| illative | *aigasta-aikahën | *aigasta-aikoihën | |
| adessive | *aigasta-aigalla | *aigasta-aigoilla | |
| ablative | *aigasta-aigalta | *aigasta-aigoilta | |
| allative | *aigasta-aikalën *aigasta-aikalëk |
*aigasta-aikoilën *aigasta-aikoilëk | |
| essive | *aigasta-aikana | *aigasta-aikoina | |
| translative | *aigasta-aigaksi | *aigasta-aigoiksi | |
| instructive | *aigasta-aigan | *aigasta-aigoin | |
| comitative | *aigasta-aikanëk | *aigasta-aikoinëk | |
| abessive | *aigasta-aigatta | *aigasta-aigoitta | |
Descendants
- Estonian: aasta
- → Finnish: aasta
- Finnish: ajastaika, (dialectal) ajasta-aika, aasaika, aastaika
- Ingrian: aastaika
- Livonian: āigast
- Võro: aastak, aastaig, ajastaig, aasta
- Votic: aigassaika (Pummala)
- Kukkuzi: aastaika
Further reading
- “aasta”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “ajastaika”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN