Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/sini
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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-Finno-Permic *sine (compare Erzya сэнь (seń, “blue, gray”), Moksha сенем (śeńem, “blue”)). Sometimes connected with Proto-Uralic *śine (“charcoal”), whence Hungarian szén, Northern Sami čitna, but these words are probably not related.
Earlier often compared also with Iranian terms such as Pashto شين (šin, “green, blue”), but this is unlikely to be correct: the possible loan sources Proto-Scythian *āxšīni or Proto-Iranian *axšáyHnah would not be expected to give a (pre-)Finnic word beginning with *s-. A Slavic origin, from Proto-Slavic *siňь (“blue, blue-gray”), has also been proposed, but is likewise unlikely due to phonological and chronological issues; the Slavic *-i- would be expected to be reflected as a long *-ii-, and there are no known Slavic borrowings already into West Uralic.
Noun
Inflection
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *sini | *sinet | |
| accusative | *sinen | *sinet | |
| genitive | *sinen | *sinden *siniden | |
| partitive | *sintä | *sinidä | |
| inessive | *sinessä *sinehnä |
*sinissä *sinihnä | |
| elative | *sinestä | *sinistä | |
| illative | *sinehen | *sinihen | |
| adessive | *sinellä | *sinillä | |
| ablative | *sineltä | *siniltä | |
| allative | *sinelen *sinelek |
*sinilen *sinilek | |
| essive | *sinnä | *sininä | |
| translative | *sineksi | *siniksi | |
| instructive | *sinen | *sinin | |
| comitative | *sinnek | *sininek | |
| abessive | *sinettä | *sinittä | |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Kivinen, Ilona (2007) “Värinnimitysten synty suomalais-ugrilaisissa kielissä,lähtökohtana ’musta’ [Origin of colour names in Finno-Ugric languages, starting with 'black']”, in https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/19678
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Holopainen, Sampsa. 2019. Indo-Iranian borrowings in Uralic. PhD thesis, University of Helsinki.
- ^ Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “sininen”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
- ^ Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) “sininen”, in Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN, page 1156
- ^ Koski, Mauno (1983) Värien nimitykset suomessa ja lähisukukielissä [Colour names in Finnish and closely related languages], Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN, page 150
- ^ Entry #1555 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.