Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/picku
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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
Probably sound-symbolic origin.
Adjective
*picku[1]
Inflection
Inflection of *picku
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *picku | *pickut | |
| accusative | *pickun | *pickut | |
| genitive | *pickun | *pickudën *pickuidën | |
| partitive | *pickuda | *pickuida | |
| inessive | *pickussa *pickuhna |
*pickuissa *pickuihna | |
| elative | *pickusta | *pickuista | |
| illative | *pickuhën | *pickuihën | |
| adessive | *pickulla | *pickuilla | |
| ablative | *pickulta | *pickuilta | |
| allative | *pickulën *pickulëk |
*pickuilën *pickuilëk | |
| essive | *pickuna | *pickuina | |
| translative | *pickuksi | *pickuiksi | |
| instructive | *pickun | *pickuin | |
| comitative | *pickunëk | *pickuinëk | |
| abessive | *pickutta | *pickuitta | |
Descendants
- Estonian: ⇒ pisku, pisike
- Finnish: (obsolete) pisku, ⇒ piskuinen
- Karelian: ⇒
- North Karelian: pičukkaini
- South Karelian: pičukkane
- Livonian: ⇒ piški
- Livvi: ⇒ pičukku, pičukkaine
- Veps: ⇒ pičuine
- Võro: ⇒ pisokõnõ
- Votic: ⇒ piški (Kliimettina)
References
Further reading
- “pisike”, 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), “piskuinen”, in 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