Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/nälkä
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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 earlier *ńäl- + *-kä, from Proto-Uralic *ńäle- (“to swallow”). Formally identical to Proto-Samic *ńālkē (“tasty”).[1]
Noun
*nälkä
Inflection
Inflection of *nälkä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *nälkä | *nälgät | |
| accusative | *nälgän | *nälgät | |
| genitive | *nälgän | *nälkäden *nälkeiden | |
| partitive | *nälkädä | *nälkeidä | |
| inessive | *nälgässä *nälgähnä |
*nälgeissä *nälgeihnä | |
| elative | *nälgästä | *nälgeistä | |
| illative | *nälkähen | *nälkeihen | |
| adessive | *nälgällä | *nälgeillä | |
| ablative | *nälgältä | *nälgeiltä | |
| allative | *nälkälen *nälkälek |
*nälkeilen *nälkeilek | |
| essive | *nälkänä | *nälkeinä | |
| translative | *nälgäksi | *nälgeiksi | |
| instructive | *nälgän | *nälgein | |
| comitative | *nälkänek | *nälkeinek | |
| abessive | *nälgättä | *nälgeittä | |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Estonian: nälg
- Finnish: nälkä
- Ingrian: nälkä
- Karelian: nälkä, nälgä
- Livonian: nǟlga
- Livvi: nälgy
- Ludian: näl'g
- Veps: näl'g
- Võro: nälg
- Votic: nältše
- → Proto-Samic: *nealkē (see there for further descendants)
References
- ^ Aikio, Ante. 2002. "New and Old Samoyed Etymologies". Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 57, pp. 9–57.
- “nälg”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), Suomen sanojen alkuperä (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