Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/ektä
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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
Related to Proto-Samic (compare Northern Sami ikte), which may be a Finnic loan. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
*ektä[1]
Inflection
Inflection of *ektä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *ektä | *ektät | |
| accusative | *ektän | *ektät | |
| genitive | *ektän | *ektäden *ekteiden | |
| partitive | *ektädä | *ekteidä | |
| inessive | *ektässä *ektähnä |
*ekteissä *ekteihnä | |
| elative | *ektästä | *ekteistä | |
| illative | *ektähen | *ekteihen | |
| adessive | *ektällä | *ekteillä | |
| ablative | *ektältä | *ekteiltä | |
| allative | *ektälen *ektälek |
*ekteilen *ekteilek | |
| essive | *ektänä | *ekteinä | |
| translative | *ektäksi | *ekteiksi | |
| instructive | *ektän | *ektein | |
| comitative | *ektänek | *ekteinek | |
| abessive | *ektättä | *ekteittä | |
Related terms
- ? *ektago
Descendants
- Estonian: eha, (dialectal) õha
- Finnish: (dialectal) ehtä, ehta
- Karelian: ehtä
- Livvi: ehty
- Ludian: eht
- Veps: eht
References
Further reading
- “eha”, 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), “ehtä”, 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