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Proto-Finnic
Etymology
From Proto-Finno-Ugric *kerä.
Noun
*kerä[1]
- ball, clew (of thread, yarn)
Inflection
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
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singular
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plural
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nominative
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*kerä
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*kerät
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accusative
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*kerän
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*kerät
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genitive
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*kerän
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*keräden *kereiden
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partitive
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*kerädä
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*kereidä
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inessive
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*kerässä *kerähnä
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*kereissä *kereihnä
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elative
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*kerästä
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*kereistä
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illative
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*kerähen
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*kereihen
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adessive
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*kerällä
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*kereillä
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ablative
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*kerältä
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*kereiltä
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allative
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*kerälen *kerälek
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*kereilen *kereilek
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essive
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*keränä
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*kereinä
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translative
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*keräksi
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*kereiksi
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instructive
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*kerän
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*kerein
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comitative
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*keränek
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*kereinek
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abessive
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*kerättä
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*kereittä
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Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “kera”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Entry #285 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
References
- ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*kerä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary] (in Finnish)