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Proto-Finnic
Etymology
From Proto-Finno-Permic *wešnä (“spelt, wheat”), probably borrowed from a substrate language.
Noun
*vehnä[1]
- (Northern Finnic) wheat
- Synonym: *nisu
Inflection
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
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singular
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plural
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nominative
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*vehnä
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*vehnät
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accusative
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*vehnän
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*vehnät
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genitive
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*vehnän
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*vehnäden *vehneiden
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partitive
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*vehnädä
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*vehneidä
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inessive
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*vehnässä *vehnähnä
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*vehneissä *vehneihnä
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elative
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*vehnästä
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*vehneistä
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illative
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*vehnähen
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*vehneihen
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adessive
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*vehnällä
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*vehneillä
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ablative
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*vehnältä
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*vehneiltä
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allative
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*vehnälen *vehnälek
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*vehneilen *vehneilek
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essive
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*vehnänä
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*vehneinä
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translative
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*vehnäksi
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*vehneiksi
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instructive
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*vehnän
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*vehnein
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comitative
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*vehnänek
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*vehneinek
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abessive
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*vehnättä
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*vehneittä
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Descendants
References
- ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*vehnä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary] (in Finnish)
Further reading
- Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “vehnä”, in 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
- Entry #1707 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.