Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/cirkku
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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
Noun
*cirkku[1]
Inflection
Inflection of *cirkku
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *cirkku | *cirk'ut | |
| accusative | *cirk'un | *cirk'ut | |
| genitive | *cirk'un | *cirkkudën *cirkkuidën | |
| partitive | *cirkkuda | *cirkkuida | |
| inessive | *cirk'ussa *cirk'uhna |
*cirk'uissa *cirk'uihna | |
| elative | *cirk'usta | *cirk'uista | |
| illative | *cirkkuhën | *cirkkuihën | |
| adessive | *cirk'ulla | *cirk'uilla | |
| ablative | *cirk'ulta | *cirk'uilta | |
| allative | *cirkkulën *cirkkulëk |
*cirkkuilën *cirkkuilëk | |
| essive | *cirkkuna | *cirkkuina | |
| translative | *cirk'uksi | *cirk'uiksi | |
| instructive | *cirk'un | *cirk'uin | |
| comitative | *cirkkunëk | *cirkkuinëk | |
| abessive | *cirk'utta | *cirk'uitta | |
Descendants
- Estonian: (dialectal) sirk
- Finnish: sirkku
- ⇒ Ingrian: cirkkulain
- Karelian: čirkku
- Ludian: čirk
- Veps: čirk
- Võro: tsirk
- Votic: sirkku
References
Further reading
- “sirk”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012