Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/setä
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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-Uralic *śečä.
Noun
*setä
Inflection
Inflection of *setä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *setä | *sedät | |
| accusative | *sedän | *sedät | |
| genitive | *sedän | *setäden *seteiden | |
| partitive | *setädä | *seteidä | |
| inessive | *sedässä *sedähnä |
*sedeissä *sedeihnä | |
| elative | *sedästä | *sedeistä | |
| illative | *setähen | *seteihen | |
| adessive | *sedällä | *sedeillä | |
| ablative | *sedältä | *sedeiltä | |
| allative | *setälen *setälek |
*seteilen *seteilek | |
| essive | *setänä | *seteinä | |
| translative | *sedäksi | *sedeiksi | |
| instructive | *sedän | *sedein | |
| comitative | *setänek | *seteinek | |
| abessive | *sedättä | *sedeittä | |
Coordinate terms
Descendants
- Estonian: sedi
- Finnish: setä
- Ingrian: setä
- Eastern Finnic: → *sedoit'ar
- Karelian: sevoitar (“female cousin”)
- Ludian: sevoittareksed (“group of cousins”)
References
- Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), 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