Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kerägä
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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 from *kerät'äk (“to gather, collect”) + *-gä.
Noun
*kerägä
Inflection
Inflection of *kerägä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *kerägä | *kerägät | |
| accusative | *kerägän | *kerägät | |
| genitive | *kerägän | *kerägäden *kerägeiden | |
| partitive | *kerägätä | *kerägeitä | |
| inessive | *kerägässä *kerägähnä |
*kerägeissä *kerägeihnä | |
| elative | *kerägästä | *kerägeistä | |
| illative | *kerägäsen | *kerägeisen | |
| adessive | *kerägällä | *kerägeillä | |
| ablative | *kerägältä | *kerägeiltä | |
| allative | *kerägälen *kerägälek |
*kerägeilen *kerägeilek | |
| essive | *kerägänä | *kerägeinä | |
| translative | *kerägäksi | *kerägeiksi | |
| instructive | *kerägän | *kerägein | |
| comitative | *kerägänek | *kerägeinek | |
| abessive | *kerägättä | *kerägeittä | |
Descendants
- Estonian: (obsolete) kära
- Finnish: käräjät pl, (archaic, dialectal) keräjät pl
- Ingrian: keräjät pl
- Karelian:
- South Karelian: keräjä
- Livvi: ⇒ kerähmö
- Ludian: kerag
- Veps: kerag
Further reading
- “kärajad”, 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), “käräjä”, in 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