Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/silmä
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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 *śilmä.
Noun
*silmä
Inflection
Inflection of *silmä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *silmä | *silmät | |
| accusative | *silmän | *silmät | |
| genitive | *silmän | *silmäden *silmeiden | |
| partitive | *silmädä | *silmeidä | |
| inessive | *silmässä *silmähnä |
*silmeissä *silmeihnä | |
| elative | *silmästä | *silmeistä | |
| illative | *silmähen | *silmeihen | |
| adessive | *silmällä | *silmeillä | |
| ablative | *silmältä | *silmeiltä | |
| allative | *silmälen *silmälek |
*silmeilen *silmeilek | |
| essive | *silmänä | *silmeinä | |
| translative | *silmäksi | *silmeiksi | |
| instructive | *silmän | *silmein | |
| comitative | *silmänek | *silmeinek | |
| abessive | *silmättä | *silmeittä | |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Estonian: silm
- Finnish: silmä
- Ingrian: silmä
- Karelian: silmä, šilmä
- Livonian: sīlma
- Livvi: silmy
- Ludian: sil'm
- Veps: sil'm
- Võro: silm
- Votic: silme
- → Proto-Samic: *šëlmē (“eye of an axe blade”) (see there for further descendants)
References
- “silm”, 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), 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