Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/sekä

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.

Possibly from Proto-Uralic *sekä (“inside, among”).^[1]

*sekä^[2]

1. mixed
2. among

• *segät'äk

• Estonian: sega-, ⇒ sekka (illative), seas (inessive), seast (elative)
• ⇒ Livonian: siegās (inessive), sieʾggõ (illative)
• Võro: segä-, ⇒ sekkä (illative), seehn (inessive), seest (elative)

In Northern Finnic, the root has adopted back-vowel harmony (*sëka):

• Finnish: seka-, ⇒ sekaan (illative), seassa (inessive), seasta (elative)
• Ingrian: seka-, ⇒ sekkaa (illative), seas (inessive), seast (elative)
• Karelian:
  • North Karelian: šeka- ⇒ šekah (illative), šejašša (inessive), šejašta (elative)
  • South Karelian: šega- ⇒ šegah (illative), šejašša (inessive), šejašta (elative)
• Livvi: sega-, ⇒ segah (illative)
• Ludian: sega-
• Veps: sega
• → Proto-Samic: *seakē (see there for further descendants)

• “segama”, 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), “seka”, 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