Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/erä
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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 Proto-Finno-Ugric *erä.
Adjective
*erä[1]
Reconstruction notes
The original part of speech is not fully certain.
Inflection
Inflection of *erä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *erä | *erät | |
| accusative | *erän | *erät | |
| genitive | *erän | *eräden *ereiden | |
| partitive | *erädä | *ereidä | |
| inessive | *erässä *erähnä |
*ereissä *ereihnä | |
| elative | *erästä | *ereistä | |
| illative | *erähen | *ereihen | |
| adessive | *erällä | *ereillä | |
| ablative | *erältä | *ereiltä | |
| allative | *erälen *erälek |
*ereilen *ereilek | |
| essive | *eränä | *ereinä | |
| translative | *eräksi | *ereiksi | |
| instructive | *erän | *erein | |
| comitative | *eränek | *ereinek | |
| abessive | *erättä | *ereittä | |
Derived terms
Descendants
- ⇒ Estonian: ära (“away”, adverb)
- Finnish: erä (“wilderness, hunting ground; game, catch; that which is separate from others, batch, piece”, noun), ⇒ erikseen (“separately”, adverb), erillään (“apart”, adverb), erata (“to diverge”, verb)
- ⇒ Ingrian: eriksee (“separately”, adverb), erillää (“apart”, adverb)
- Karelian:
- ⇒ Livonian: jarā (“away”, adverb)
- ⇒ Livvi: eriže (“apart”, adverb)
- ⇒ Ludian: eriže (“apart”, adverb)
- ⇒ Veps: eragata (“to diverge, go apart”, verb)
- Võro: erä (“separate, apart”, adjective)
References
Further reading
- Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “erä”, 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