Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/liha
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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
Unknown. If from earlier *likša, the word may be connected to Proto-Samic *liškē (“surface, skin”), with an ancestral meaning "skin, meat, flesh" (which need not have been distinguished in the past). Since no further etymology is known, a borrowing from a substrate has been proposed.
Noun
Inflection
Inflection of *liha
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *liha | *lihat | |
| accusative | *lihan | *lihat | |
| genitive | *lihan | *lihadën *lihoidën | |
| partitive | *lihada | *lihoida | |
| inessive | *lihassa *lihahna |
*lihoissa *lihoihna | |
| elative | *lihasta | *lihoista | |
| illative | *lihahën | *lihoihën | |
| adessive | *lihalla | *lihoilla | |
| ablative | *lihalta | *lihoilta | |
| allative | *lihalën *lihalëk |
*lihoilën *lihoilëk | |
| essive | *lihana | *lihoina | |
| translative | *lihaksi | *lihoiksi | |
| instructive | *lihan | *lihoin | |
| comitative | *lihanëk | *lihoinëk | |
| abessive | *lihatta | *lihoitta | |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Estonian: liha
- Finnish: liha
- Ingrian: liha
- Karelian: liha
- Livonian: leja
- Livvi: liha
- Ludian: liha
- Veps: liha
- Võro: liha
- Votic: liha
References
- “liha”, 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