Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/niici
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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 *niiti, borrowed from Proto-Baltic (whence Latvian nīts and Lithuanian nytis).
Noun
*niici[1]
- heddle (part of a loom)
Inflection
Inflection of *niici
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *niici | *niidet | |
| accusative | *niiden | *niidet | |
| genitive | *niiden | *niit'en *niiciden | |
| partitive | *niittä | *niicidä | |
| inessive | *niidessä *niidehnä |
*niicissä *niicihnä | |
| elative | *niidestä | *niicistä | |
| illative | *niitehen | *niicihen | |
| adessive | *niidellä | *niicillä | |
| ablative | *niideltä | *niiciltä | |
| allative | *niitelen *niitelek |
*niicilen *niicilek | |
| essive | *niinnä | *niicinä | |
| translative | *niideksi | *niiciksi | |
| instructive | *niiden | *niicin | |
| comitative | *niinnek | *niicinek | |
| abessive | *niidettä | *niicittä | |
Descendants
- Estonian: niis
- Finnish: niisi
- Ingrian: niisi
- Karelian: niisi, niizi
- Livonian: nīdõz
- Livvi: niiži
- Ludian: niiž
- Veps: niž
- Votic: niisi
References
Further reading
- “niis”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012