Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/looto
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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
Possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *flōdō (whence Norwegian Nynorsk flu and Old Norse flúð (“low skerry”)).
Noun
*looto
Inflection
Inflection of *looto
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *looto | *loodot | |
| accusative | *loodon | *loodot | |
| genitive | *loodon | *lootodën *lootoidën | |
| partitive | *lootoda | *lootoida | |
| inessive | *loodossa *loodohna |
*loodoissa *loodoihna | |
| elative | *loodosta | *loodoista | |
| illative | *lootohën | *lootoihën | |
| adessive | *loodolla | *loodoilla | |
| ablative | *loodolta | *loodoilta | |
| allative | *lootolën *lootolëk |
*lootoilën *lootoilëk | |
| essive | *lootona | *lootoina | |
| translative | *loodoksi | *loodoiksi | |
| instructive | *loodon | *loodoin | |
| comitative | *lootonëk | *lootoinëk | |
| abessive | *loodotta | *loodoitta | |
Descendants
- Estonian: lood
- Finnish: luoto
- Ingrian: looto
- Karelian:
- Livvi: luodo
- Ludian: luod
- Veps: lodo
- Votic: looto
- → Inari Sami: luátu
- → Northern Sami: luohtu
- → Russian: луда (luda)
- → Skolt Sami: luâtt
Further reading
- “lood”, 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), “luoto”, 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