Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/mäkrä
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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. Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *marþraz (“marten”), but this is unlikely for phonetic reasons.
Noun
*mäkrä[1]
Inflection
Inflection of *mäkrä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *mäkrä | *mäkrät | |
| accusative | *mäkrän | *mäkrät | |
| genitive | *mäkrän | *mäkräden *mäkreiden | |
| partitive | *mäkrädä | *mäkreidä | |
| inessive | *mäkrässä *mäkrähnä |
*mäkreissä *mäkreihnä | |
| elative | *mäkrästä | *mäkreistä | |
| illative | *mäkrähen | *mäkreihen | |
| adessive | *mäkrällä | *mäkreillä | |
| ablative | *mäkrältä | *mäkreiltä | |
| allative | *mäkrälen *mäkrälek |
*mäkreilen *mäkreilek | |
| essive | *mäkränä | *mäkreinä | |
| translative | *mäkräksi | *mäkreiksi | |
| instructive | *mäkrän | *mäkrein | |
| comitative | *mäkränek | *mäkreinek | |
| abessive | *mäkrättä | *mäkreittä | |
Descendants
- Estonian: mäger, (dialectal) määr
- Finnish: mäyrä
- Karelian:
- Livonian: mä’ggõrz
- Livvi: mägry
- Ludian: mägr
- Veps: mägr
References
Further reading
- “mäger”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012