Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/minä
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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 Proto-Uralic *minä. The *-u in oblique forms originates from a dual inflection, which has otherwise been lost; compare the Proto-Samic first-person dual pronoun *monōj.
Pronoun
*minä
Inflection
Inflection of *minä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *minä | — | |
| accusative | *minun | — | |
| genitive | *minun | — | |
| partitive | *minuda | — | |
| inessive | *minussa *minuhna |
— | |
| elative | *minusta | — | |
| illative | *minuhën | — | |
| adessive | *minulla | — | |
| ablative | *minulta | — | |
| allative | *minulën *minulëk |
— | |
| essive | *minuna | — | |
| translative | *minuksi | — | |
| instructive | *minun | — | |
| comitative | *minunëk | — | |
| abessive | *minutta | — | |
Descendants
- Estonian: mina, ma
- Finnish: minä, (colloquial/dialectal) mä, mää, miä, mie, mnää
- Kven: mie
- Ingrian: miä
- Karelian:
- Livonian: minā, ma
- Livvi: minä
- Ludian: minä
- Veps: minä
- Võro: ma, maq
- Votic: miä
References
- “mina”, 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), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN