Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/evä
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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
Unknown. Possibly from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ewä (whence Hungarian evez (“to row”)).
Noun
*evä (Northern Finnic)
- fin (appendage of a fish)
Inflection
Inflection of *evä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *evä | *evät | |
| accusative | *evän | *evät | |
| genitive | *evän | *eväden *eveiden | |
| partitive | *evädä | *eveidä | |
| inessive | *evässä *evähnä |
*eveissä *eveihnä | |
| elative | *evästä | *eveistä | |
| illative | *evähen | *eveihen | |
| adessive | *evällä | *eveillä | |
| ablative | *evältä | *eveiltä | |
| allative | *evälen *evälek |
*eveilen *eveilek | |
| essive | *evänä | *eveinä | |
| translative | *eväksi | *eveiksi | |
| instructive | *evän | *evein | |
| comitative | *evänek | *eveinek | |
| abessive | *evättä | *eveittä | |
Descendants
Further reading
- Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “evä”, 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
- Entry #138 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.