Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/repäinen
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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 a root *repä + *-inën, from Proto-Finno-Permic *repä, borrowed from Indo-Iranian language (compare Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬞𐬌 (raopi)).
Noun
*repäinen
Inflection
Inflection of *repäinen
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *repäinen | *repäicet | |
| accusative | *repäicen | *repäicet | |
| genitive | *repäicen | *rebäicten *repäiciden | |
| partitive | *rebäictä | *repäicitä | |
| inessive | *repäicessä *repäicehnä |
*repäicissä *repäicihnä | |
| elative | *repäicestä | *repäicistä | |
| illative | *repäicesen | *repäicisen | |
| adessive | *repäicellä | *repäicillä | |
| ablative | *repäiceltä | *repäiciltä | |
| allative | *repäicelen *repäicelek |
*repäicilen *repäicilek | |
| essive | *rebäinnä | *repäicinä | |
| translative | *repäiceksi | *repäiciksi | |
| instructive | *repäicen | *repäicin | |
| comitative | *rebäinnek | *repäicinek | |
| abessive | *repäicettä | *repäicittä | |
Descendants
- Estonian: rebane
- Livonian:
- Veps: rebaane (Southern dialect)
- Võro: repän'
- → Proto-Samic:
- Northern Sami: rieban
Further reading
- “rebane”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012