Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kämmen
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Proto-Finnic
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Finno-Ugric *käme. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
*kämmen
- palm (of the hand)
Inflection
Inflection of *kämmen
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *kämmen | *kämmenet | |
| accusative | *kämmenen | *kämmenet | |
| genitive | *kämmenen | *kämmenden *kämmeniden | |
| partitive | *kämmentä | *kämmenitä | |
| inessive | *kämmenessä *kämmenehnä |
*kämmenissä *kämmenihnä | |
| elative | *kämmenestä | *kämmenistä | |
| illative | *kämmenesen | *kämmenisen | |
| adessive | *kämmenellä | *kämmenillä | |
| ablative | *kämmeneltä | *kämmeniltä | |
| allative | *kämmenelen *kämmenelek |
*kämmenilen *kämmenilek | |
| essive | *kämmennä | *kämmeninä | |
| translative | *kämmeneksi | *kämmeniksi | |
| instructive | *kämmenen | *kämmenin | |
| comitative | *kämmennek | *kämmeninek | |
| abessive | *kämmenettä | *kämmenittä | |
Descendants
From *kämmäl:
Further reading
- “kämmal”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*kämme-”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary] (in Finnish)
- Entry #265 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.