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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
Perhaps borrowed from Baltic (compare Latvian ragavas, Latgalian rogovos, Lithuanian ragės), although the vowel in the first syllable is problematic.
Noun
Inflection
Inflection of *reki
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *reki | *reget | |
| accusative | *regen | *reget | |
| genitive | *regen | *rekeden *rekiden | |
| partitive | *rekedä | *rekidä | |
| inessive | *regessä *regehnä |
*regissä *regihnä | |
| elative | *regestä | *registä | |
| illative | *rekehen | *rekihen | |
| adessive | *regellä | *regillä | |
| ablative | *regeltä | *regiltä | |
| allative | *rekelen *rekelek |
*rekilen *rekilek | |
| essive | *rekenä | *rekinä | |
| translative | *regeksi | *regiksi | |
| instructive | *regen | *regin | |
| comitative | *rekenek | *rekinek | |
| abessive | *regettä | *regittä | |
Coordinate terms
- *sepä (“front part of a sleigh”)
Descendants
- Estonian: regi
- Finnish: reki
- Ingrian: reki
- Karelian: reki, regi
- Livonian: re’ggõz
- Livvi: regi
- Ludian: regi
- Veps: regi
- Võro: regi
- Votic: retši
References
- “regi”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012