Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/cüvä
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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
Probably from Proto-Finno-Ugric *tiwä. Cognate with Proto-Samic *tëvē. Has also sometimes been considered a borrowing from Proto-Germanic *deupaz (“deep”), but inheritance is more likely.
Adjective
*cüvä[1]
Inflection
Inflection of *cüvä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *cüvä | *cüvät | |
| accusative | *cüvän | *cüvät | |
| genitive | *cüvän | *cüväden *cüveiden | |
| partitive | *cüvädä | *cüveidä | |
| inessive | *cüvässä *cüvähnä |
*cüveissä *cüveihnä | |
| elative | *cüvästä | *cüveistä | |
| illative | *cüvähen | *cüveihen | |
| adessive | *cüvällä | *cüveillä | |
| ablative | *cüvältä | *cüveiltä | |
| allative | *cüvälen *cüvälek |
*cüveilen *cüveilek | |
| essive | *cüvänä | *cüveinä | |
| translative | *cüväksi | *cüveiksi | |
| instructive | *cüvän | *cüvein | |
| comitative | *cüvänek | *cüveinek | |
| abessive | *cüvättä | *cüveittä | |
Descendants
- Estonian: süva
- Finnish: syvä
- Ingrian: syvä
- Karelian: syvä, šyvä
- Livvi: syvä
- Ludian: šüvä
- Veps: süvä
- Võro: süvä
- Votic: süvä
From *tüvä
- Livonian: tõvā
References
Further reading
- “süva”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012