Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/häntä
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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. According to a now obsolete[1] theory, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *čänčä (“back”).
Noun
*häntä
- tail (of an animal)
Inflection
Inflection of *häntä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *häntä | *händät | |
| accusative | *händän | *händät | |
| genitive | *händän | *häntäden *hänteiden | |
| partitive | *häntädä | *hänteidä | |
| inessive | *händässä *händähnä |
*händeissä *händeihnä | |
| elative | *händästä | *händeistä | |
| illative | *häntähen | *hänteihen | |
| adessive | *händällä | *händeillä | |
| ablative | *händältä | *händeiltä | |
| allative | *häntälen *häntälek |
*hänteilen *hänteilek | |
| essive | *häntänä | *hänteinä | |
| translative | *händäksi | *händeiksi | |
| instructive | *händän | *händein | |
| comitative | *häntänek | *hänteinek | |
| abessive | *händättä | *händeittä | |
Descendants
- Estonian: händ
- Finnish: häntä
- Ingrian: häntä
- Karelian:
- Livonian: ǟnda
- Livvi: händy
- Ludian: händ
- Veps: händ
- Võro: hand
- Votic: änte
References
- ^ Aikio, Ante: Studies in Uralic Etymology IV: Ob-Ugric Etymologies Linguistica Uralica 51:1, 2015
External links
- Entry #103 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.