Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/keerä
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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
Related to *keerdäk, either as a back-formation or derivative with *-ra (~ *kierrä, which some descendants appear to support).
Has also been compared with words in other Uralic languages, e.g. Hungarian kerül, but the long vowel cannot be inferred from the reconstructed Proto-Uralic form *kerä. Within Finnic contrast also *kerä (“ball of string”), *kääridäk (“to wrap”).
Adjective
*keerä
Inflection
Inflection of *keerä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *keerä | *keerät | |
| accusative | *keerän | *keerät | |
| genitive | *keerän | *keeräden *keereiden | |
| partitive | *keerädä | *keereidä | |
| inessive | *keerässä *keerähnä |
*keereissä *keereihnä | |
| elative | *keerästä | *keereistä | |
| illative | *keerähen | *keereihen | |
| adessive | *keerällä | *keereillä | |
| ablative | *keerältä | *keereiltä | |
| allative | *keerälen *keerälek |
*keereilen *keereilek | |
| essive | *keeränä | *keereinä | |
| translative | *keeräksi | *keereiksi | |
| instructive | *keerän | *keerein | |
| comitative | *keeränek | *keereinek | |
| abessive | *keerättä | *keereittä | |
Derived terms
- *keerädäk (“to twist, turn over”)
Descendants
- Finnish: kierä
- Ingrian: keerrä
- Karelian: kierä
- Livvi: kierü
- Ludian: kier
- Veps: ker
- → Northern Sami: gierri
From *keero:
From *keerädäk:
- Estonian: keerama
Related terms
- *keero (“twisted, bent”)
- *keertädäk (“to twist, go around smth”)
References
- “keer”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN