Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/käki
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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
Cognate with Proto-Samic *kiekë, either borrowed from Proto-Baltic (whence Latvian dzeguze, Lithuanian gegė, gegužė), or alternatively, of onomatopoeic origin.
Noun
*käki[1]
- cuckoo (bird)
Inflection
Inflection of *käki
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *käki | *käget | |
| accusative | *kägen | *käget | |
| genitive | *kägen | *käkeden *käkiden | |
| partitive | *käkedä | *käkidä | |
| inessive | *kägessä *kägehnä |
*kägissä *kägihnä | |
| elative | *kägestä | *kägistä | |
| illative | *käkehen | *käkihen | |
| adessive | *kägellä | *kägillä | |
| ablative | *kägeltä | *kägiltä | |
| allative | *käkelen *käkelek |
*käkilen *käkilek | |
| essive | *käkenä | *käkinä | |
| translative | *kägeksi | *kägiksi | |
| instructive | *kägen | *kägin | |
| comitative | *käkenek | *käkinek | |
| abessive | *kägettä | *kägittä | |
Descendants
- Estonian: (dialectal) kägi
- Finnish: käki
- Ingrian: käki
- Karelian:
- Livonian:
- Kurzeme Livonian: kä’g, ke’g
- Vidzeme Livonian: ķeg, keģ
- →? Latvian: ķeģis (Acanthis flammea)
- Livvi: (rare) kägi
- Ludian: kägi
- Veps: kägi
From *käkoi (derived with *-oi):
- Estonian: kägu
- Finnish: (poetic) käkö
- Ingrian: käkö, (Soikkola) käköi
- Karelian:
- South Karelian: kägöi
- Livvi: kägöi
- Ludian: kägöi
- Võro: kägo
- Votic: tšako, tšäko
References
Further reading
- “kägu”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012