Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/tühjä
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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 earlier *tüšjä, borrowed from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tuskjas (whence Latvian tukšs, Lithuanian tuščias).
Adjective
*tühjä[1]
Inflection
Inflection of *tühjä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *tühjä | *tühjät | |
| accusative | *tühjän | *tühjät | |
| genitive | *tühjän | *tühjäden *tühjeiden | |
| partitive | *tühjädä | *tühjeidä | |
| inessive | *tühjässä *tühjähnä |
*tühjeissä *tühjeihnä | |
| elative | *tühjästä | *tühjeistä | |
| illative | *tühjähen | *tühjeihen | |
| adessive | *tühjällä | *tühjeillä | |
| ablative | *tühjältä | *tühjeiltä | |
| allative | *tühjälen *tühjälek |
*tühjeilen *tühjeilek | |
| essive | *tühjänä | *tühjeinä | |
| translative | *tühjäksi | *tühjeiksi | |
| instructive | *tühjän | *tühjein | |
| comitative | *tühjänek | *tühjeinek | |
| abessive | *tühjättä | *tühjeittä | |
Descendants
- Estonian: tühi
- Finnish: tyhjä
- Ingrian: tyhjä
- Karelian:
- Livonian: (Courland) tijā, (Salaca) tüä
- Livvi: tyhjy
- Ludian: tühd'
- Veps: tühj
- Võro: tühi
- Votic: tühje
- → Proto-Samic: *tuššē (see there for further descendants)
References
Further reading
- “tühi”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012