Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kärnä
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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
Possibly from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kärnä. Alternatively, a front vowel variant of *karna.
Noun
*kärnä[1]
Inflection
Inflection of *kärnä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *kärnä | *kärnät | |
| accusative | *kärnän | *kärnät | |
| genitive | *kärnän | *kärnäden *kärneiden | |
| partitive | *kärnädä | *kärneidä | |
| inessive | *kärnässä *kärnähnä |
*kärneissä *kärneihnä | |
| elative | *kärnästä | *kärneistä | |
| illative | *kärnähen | *kärneihen | |
| adessive | *kärnällä | *kärneillä | |
| ablative | *kärnältä | *kärneiltä | |
| allative | *kärnälen *kärnälek |
*kärneilen *kärneilek | |
| essive | *kärnänä | *kärneinä | |
| translative | *kärnäksi | *kärneiksi | |
| instructive | *kärnän | *kärnein | |
| comitative | *kärnänek | *kärneinek | |
| abessive | *kärnättä | *kärneittä | |
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “kärn”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Entry #268 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.