Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/tähti
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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 *täštä. Cognate with Kildin Sami та̄ссьт (tāss’t), Erzya теште (ťešťe) and Eastern Mari тиште (tište). According to Zhivlov (2015), possibly ultimately a substrate borrowing from the pre-Uralic languages of the Volga.[1]
Noun
*tähti[2]
Inflection
Inflection of *tähti
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *tähti | *tähtet | |
| accusative | *tähten | *tähtet | |
| genitive | *tähten | *tähteden *tähtiden | |
| partitive | *tähtedä | *tähtidä | |
| inessive | *tähtessä *tähtehnä |
*tähtissä *tähtihnä | |
| elative | *tähtestä | *tähtistä | |
| illative | *tähtehen | *tähtihen | |
| adessive | *tähtellä | *tähtillä | |
| ablative | *tähteltä | *tähtiltä | |
| allative | *tähtelen *tähtelek |
*tähtilen *tähtilek | |
| essive | *tähtenä | *tähtinä | |
| translative | *tähteksi | *tähtiksi | |
| instructive | *tähten | *tähtin | |
| comitative | *tähtenek | *tähtinek | |
| abessive | *tähtettä | *tähtittä | |
Descendants
- Estonian: täht
- Finnish: tähti
- Kven: tähti
- Ingrian: tähti
- Karelian: tähti, teähti
- Livonian:
- Livvi: tiähti
- Ludian: tiäht
- Veps: tähtaz (extended with *-as)
- Võro: täht'
- Votic: tähti
Further reading
- “täht”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012