Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/matara
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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
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *madarǭ. According to Heikkilä (2012), borrowed from Late Proto-Norse (*maðᵃran).[1]
Noun
*matara
Inflection
Inflection of *matara
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *matara | *matarat | |
| accusative | *mataran | *matarat | |
| genitive | *mataran | *mataradën *mataroidën | |
| partitive | *matarata | *mataroita | |
| inessive | *matarassa *matarahna |
*mataroissa *mataroihna | |
| elative | *matarasta | *mataroista | |
| illative | *matarasën | *mataroisën | |
| adessive | *mataralla | *mataroilla | |
| ablative | *mataralta | *mataroilta | |
| allative | *mataralën *mataralëk |
*mataroilën *mataroilëk | |
| essive | *matarana | *mataroina | |
| translative | *mataraksi | *mataroiksi | |
| instructive | *mataran | *mataroin | |
| comitative | *mataranëk | *mataroinëk | |
| abessive | *mataratta | *mataroitta | |
Descendants
- Estonian: madar
- → Latvian: madara
- Finnish: matara
- Ingrian: matara
- Karelian:
- Livvi: madaro
- Ludian: madar
Further reading
- “madar”, 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), “matara”, 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
References
- ^ Heikkilä, Mikko. Kaleva and his Sons from Kalanti – On the Etymology of Certain Names in Finnic Mythology SKY Journal of Linguistics 25 (2012), pp. 93–123