Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/piimä

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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-Finno-Ugric *pejmä, probably borrowed from Proto-Iranian *páyHmā (“milk”), or alternatively inherited from Proto-Uralic *pije-mä, from *pije- (“to milk”), compare Hungarian fej (“to milk”).

Noun

*piimä[1]

  1. milk
    Synonym: *maito

Inflection

Inflection of *piimä
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
singular plural
nominative *piimä *piimät
accusative *piimän *piimät
genitive *piimän *piimäden
*piimeiden
partitive *piimädä *piimeidä
inessive *piimässä
*piimähnä 		*piimeissä
*piimeihnä
elative *piimästä *piimeistä
illative *piimähen *piimeihen
adessive *piimällä *piimeillä
ablative *piimältä *piimeiltä
allative *piimälen
*piimälek 		*piimeilen
*piimeilek
essive *piimänä *piimeinä
translative *piimäksi *piimeiksi
instructive *piimän *piimein
comitative *piimänek *piimeinek
abessive *piimättä *piimeittä

Descendants

  • Estonian: piim
  • Finnish: piimä (“sour milk”)
    • → Karelian: piimä
    • → Swedish: pimma (“milk”) (Gothenburg Månsing)
  • Võro: piim
  • Votic: piime

References

  1. ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*piimä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎ (in Finnish)

Further reading

  • “piim”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
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