Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/persek
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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
Evidently based on *perä (“rear”) and containing the suffix + *-ek, but the origin of the *s-element is unclear.
Noun
*persek[1]
Inflection
Inflection of *persek
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *persek | *perseget | |
| accusative | *persegen | *perseget | |
| genitive | *persegen | *persekten *persegiden | |
| partitive | *persektä | *persegitä | |
| inessive | *persegessä *persegehnä |
*persegissä *persegihnä | |
| elative | *persegestä | *persegistä | |
| illative | *persegesen | *persegisen | |
| adessive | *persegellä | *persegillä | |
| ablative | *persegeltä | *persegiltä | |
| allative | *persegelen *persegelek |
*persegilen *persegilek | |
| essive | *persegenä | *perseginä | |
| translative | *persegeksi | *persegiksi | |
| instructive | *persegen | *persegin | |
| comitative | *persegenek | *perseginek | |
| abessive | *persegettä | *persegittä | |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Estonian: perse
- Finnish: perse
- Ingrian: pers
- Karelian: perse
- Livonian: pi'erz
- Livvi: perze
- Ludian: perze
- Veps: perze
- Võro: perseq
- Votic: perze
References
- “perse”, 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; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN