Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/täti
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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
Possibly from Proto-Finno-Permic *tätä, ultimately probably from baby talk.
Noun
*täti[1]
- aunt (mother's or father's sister)
Inflection
Inflection of *täti
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *täti | *tädit | |
| accusative | *tädin | *tädit | |
| genitive | *tädin | *tätiden *tätejiden | |
| partitive | *tätidä | *tätejitä | |
| inessive | *tädissä *tädihnä |
*tätejissä *tätejihnä | |
| elative | *tädistä | *tätejistä | |
| illative | *tätihen | *tätejisen | |
| adessive | *tädillä | *tätejillä | |
| ablative | *tädiltä | *tätejiltä | |
| allative | *tätilen *tätilek |
*tätejilen *tätejilek | |
| essive | *tätinä | *tätejinä | |
| translative | *tädiksi | *tätejiksi | |
| instructive | *tädin | *tätejin | |
| comitative | *tätinek | *tätejinek | |
| abessive | *tädittä | *tätejittä | |
Descendants
- Estonian: tädi
- Finnish: täti
- Ingrian: täti
- Karelian:
- Livvi: tädi
- Ludian: tädi
- Veps: tädi
- Võro: tädi
- Votic: täti
References
Further reading
- “tädi”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Entry #1636 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.