Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kupo
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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
Borrowed from Proto-Baltic (whence Latvian guba and Lithuanian guba).
Noun
*kupo
Inflection
Inflection of *kupo
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *kupo | *kubot | |
| accusative | *kubon | *kubot | |
| genitive | *kubon | *kupodën *kupoidën | |
| partitive | *kupoda | *kupoida | |
| inessive | *kubossa *kubohna |
*kuboissa *kuboihna | |
| elative | *kubosta | *kuboista | |
| illative | *kupohën | *kupoihën | |
| adessive | *kubolla | *kuboilla | |
| ablative | *kubolta | *kuboilta | |
| allative | *kupolën *kupolëk |
*kupoilën *kupoilëk | |
| essive | *kupona | *kupoina | |
| translative | *kuboksi | *kuboiksi | |
| instructive | *kubon | *kuboin | |
| comitative | *kuponëk | *kupoinëk | |
| abessive | *kubotta | *kuboitta | |
Descendants
- Estonian: kubu
- Finnish: kupo
- Ingrian: kupo
- Karelian: kupo, kubo
- Livonian: ku’b
- Livvi: kubo
- Ludian: kubo
- Võro: kubo
- Votic: kupo
Further reading
- “kubu”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012