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Proto-Finnic
Etymology
From Proto-Finno-Permic *lešmä, possibly borrowed from a substrate language[1][2] (the Pre-West Uralic agricultural substrate). Has also been hypothetized to be associated with the phonetically quite similar *lëhmus (“lime; soft wood”), through a sense development "soft" > "tame" > "domestic animal". Alternately, Katz (2003) speculates on borrowing from pre-Indo-Iranian *lekšma- (“marked”) (compare Sanskrit लक्ष्मी (lakṣmī), लक्ष्मन् (lakṣman)), through the meaning "animal marked as owned".
Noun
*lehmä[3]
- cow
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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*lehmä
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*lehmät
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accusative
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*lehmän
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*lehmät
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genitive
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*lehmän
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*lehmäden *lehmeiden
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partitive
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*lehmädä
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*lehmeidä
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inessive
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*lehmässä *lehmähnä
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*lehmeissä *lehmeihnä
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elative
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*lehmästä
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*lehmeistä
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illative
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*lehmähen
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*lehmeihen
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adessive
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*lehmällä
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*lehmeillä
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ablative
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*lehmältä
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*lehmeiltä
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allative
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*lehmälen *lehmälek
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*lehmeilen *lehmeilek
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essive
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*lehmänä
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*lehmeinä
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translative
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*lehmäksi
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*lehmeiksi
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instructive
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*lehmän
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*lehmein
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comitative
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*lehmänek
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*lehmeinek
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abessive
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*lehmättä
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*lehmeittä
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Coordinate terms
Descendants
References
- ^ М.А. Живлов. Неиндоевропейский субстрат в финно-волжских языках. X Чтения памяти С.А. Старостина ~ 27 марта 2015
- ^ Junttila, Santeri, Kallio, Petri, Holopainen, Sampsa, Kuokkala, Juha, Pystynen, Juho, editors (2020–), “lehmä”, in Suomen vanhimman sanaston etymologinen verkkosanakirja (in Finnish), retrieved 2024-01-02
- ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*lehmä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto (in Finnish)
- “lehm”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), Suomen sanojen alkuperä (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
- Katz, Hartmut (2003) Studien zu den älteren indoiranischen Lehnwörtern in den uralischen Sprachen (Indogermanische Bibliothek; 3. Reihe) (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter