Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/mäntä
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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 mente and Lithuanian mentė).
Noun
*mäntä
- utensil for stirring food
Inflection
Inflection of *mäntä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *mäntä | *mändät | |
| accusative | *mändän | *mändät | |
| genitive | *mändän | *mäntäden *mänteiden | |
| partitive | *mäntädä | *mänteidä | |
| inessive | *mändässä *mändähnä |
*mändeissä *mändeihnä | |
| elative | *mändästä | *mändeistä | |
| illative | *mäntähen | *mänteihen | |
| adessive | *mändällä | *mändeillä | |
| ablative | *mändältä | *mändeiltä | |
| allative | *mäntälen *mäntälek |
*mänteilen *mänteilek | |
| essive | *mäntänä | *mänteinä | |
| translative | *mändäksi | *mändeiksi | |
| instructive | *mändän | *mändein | |
| comitative | *mäntänek | *mänteinek | |
| abessive | *mändättä | *mändeittä | |
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “mänd”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012