Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/pärnä
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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 *päkšnä, which is likely a substrate loanword. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. how *-rn- < *-kšn-?
Noun
*pärnä[1]
Inflection
Inflection of *pärnä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *pärnä | *pärnät | |
| accusative | *pärnän | *pärnät | |
| genitive | *pärnän | *pärnäden *pärneiden | |
| partitive | *pärnädä | *pärneidä | |
| inessive | *pärnässä *pärnähnä |
*pärneissä *pärneihnä | |
| elative | *pärnästä | *pärneistä | |
| illative | *pärnähen | *pärneihen | |
| adessive | *pärnällä | *pärneillä | |
| ablative | *pärnältä | *pärneiltä | |
| allative | *pärnälen *pärnälek |
*pärneilen *pärneilek | |
| essive | *pärnänä | *pärneinä | |
| translative | *pärnäksi | *pärneiksi | |
| instructive | *pärnän | *pärnein | |
| comitative | *pärnänek | *pärneinek | |
| abessive | *pärnättä | *pärneittä | |
Descendants
- Estonian: pärn
- Finnish: pärnä (dialectal)
- Ingrian: pärnä
- Livonian: pǟrnä
- Võro: pähn
- ⇒ Votic: (Kattila) pärnäne
References
Further reading
- “pärn”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012