Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/mäntü
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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
From *mäntä (“mixing utensil made of the top of a young pine”) + *-ü.
Noun
*mäntü[1]
Inflection
Inflection of *mäntü
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *mäntü | *mändüt | |
| accusative | *mändün | *mändüt | |
| genitive | *mändün | *mäntüden *mäntüiden | |
| partitive | *mäntüdä | *mäntüidä | |
| inessive | *mändüssä *mändühnä |
*mändüissä *mändüihnä | |
| elative | *mändüstä | *mändüistä | |
| illative | *mäntühen | *mäntüihen | |
| adessive | *mändüllä | *mändüillä | |
| ablative | *mändültä | *mändüiltä | |
| allative | *mäntülen *mäntülek |
*mäntüilen *mäntüilek | |
| essive | *mäntünä | *mäntüinä | |
| translative | *mändüksi | *mändüiksi | |
| instructive | *mändün | *mändüin | |
| comitative | *mäntünek | *mäntüinek | |
| abessive | *mändüttä | *mändüittä | |
Descendants
- Estonian: mänd
- Finnish: mänty
- Ingrian: mänty
- Karelian:
- Livonian: mänd
- Livvi: mändy
- Ludian: mänd
- Veps: mänd
- Votic: mäntü
References
Further reading
- “mänd”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012