Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/etä
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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
Possibly from Proto-Finno-Permic *ečkä, *ečä. Cognate with Moksha ичкозе (ičkoźe, “far”).
Adjective
*etä
Inflection
Inflection of *etä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *etä | *edät | |
| accusative | *edän | *edät | |
| genitive | *edän | *etäden *eteiden | |
| partitive | *etädä | *eteidä | |
| inessive | *edässä *edähnä |
*edeissä *edeihnä | |
| elative | *edästä | *edeistä | |
| illative | *etähen | *eteihen | |
| adessive | *edällä | *edeillä | |
| ablative | *edältä | *edeiltä | |
| allative | *etälen *etälek |
*eteilen *eteilek | |
| essive | *etänä | *eteinä | |
| translative | *edäksi | *edeiksi | |
| instructive | *edän | *edein | |
| comitative | *etänek | *eteinek | |
| abessive | *edättä | *edeittä | |
Descendants
- ⇒ Estonian: edaja, edasi
- Finnish: etä-, ⇒ etäälle, etäällä, etäältä
- ⇒ Ingrian: etähittee, etähääl
- Karelian:
- ⇒ Ludian: edahan
- ⇒ Veps: edahaks, edahan
Further reading
- “edasi”, 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), “etä-”, 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