Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/näälä
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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
Obscure. Sometimes connected with the Uralic root *naxe- (which gave *nainën), perhaps as a front-vowel harmonic derivative *näxlä < *näxe-lä, but this is highly uncertain. Some kind of Uralic compound *naxe-läwä (for *läwä "(younger) male relative", see Northern Sami lávve, Eastern Khanty (ĺö̭γ)) might have reduced to *näxlä, if the complete loss of the last syllable could be explained.
Noun
*näälä
- brother-in-law (one's wife's brother)
Inflection
Inflection of *näälä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *näälä | *näälät | |
| accusative | *näälän | *näälät | |
| genitive | *näälän | *nääläden *nääleiden | |
| partitive | *näälädä | *nääleidä | |
| inessive | *näälässä *näälähnä |
*nääleissä *nääleihnä | |
| elative | *näälästä | *nääleistä | |
| illative | *näälähen | *nääleihen | |
| adessive | *näälällä | *nääleillä | |
| ablative | *näälältä | *nääleiltä | |
| allative | *näälälen *näälälek |
*nääleilen *nääleilek | |
| essive | *näälänä | *nääleinä | |
| translative | *nääläksi | *nääleiksi | |
| instructive | *näälän | *näälein | |
| comitative | *näälänek | *nääleinek | |
| abessive | *näälättä | *nääleittä | |
Descendants
Further reading
- “nääl”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012