Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/käpälä
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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
Probably related to *käppä, perhaps with the diminutive + *-lä.
Noun
*käpälä
Inflection
Inflection of *käpälä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *käpälä | *käpälät | |
| accusative | *käpälän | *käpälät | |
| genitive | *käpälän | *käpäläden *käpäleiden | |
| partitive | *käpälätä | *käpäleitä | |
| inessive | *käpälässä *käpälähnä |
*käpäleissä *käpäleihnä | |
| elative | *käpälästä | *käpäleistä | |
| illative | *käpäläsen | *käpäleisen | |
| adessive | *käpälällä | *käpäleillä | |
| ablative | *käpälältä | *käpäleiltä | |
| allative | *käpälälen *käpälälek |
*käpäleilen *käpäleilek | |
| essive | *käpälänä | *käpäleinä | |
| translative | *käpäläksi | *käpäleiksi | |
| instructive | *käpälän | *käpälein | |
| comitative | *käpälänek | *käpäleinek | |
| abessive | *käpälättä | *käpäleittä | |
Descendants
- Estonian: käbar
- Finnish: käpälä
- → Northern Sami: geahpil
- Ingrian: käpälä
- Karelian: käpälä, käbälä
- Livvi: käbäl
- Ludian: käbäl
- Veps: käbäl
- Votic: tšäpäle
Further reading
- “käbar”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012