Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/aigasta-aika

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 *aigasta (“from time”) + *aika (“time”).

Noun

*aigasta-aika

1. year

   Synonym: *vooci

Inflection

Inflection of *aigasta-aika

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*aigasta-aika	*aigasta-aigat
accusative		*aigasta-aigan	*aigasta-aigat
genitive		*aigasta-aigan	*aigasta-aikadën *aigasta-aikoidën
partitive		*aigasta-aikada	*aigasta-aikoida
inessive		*aigasta-aigassa *aigasta-aigahna	*aigasta-aigoissa *aigasta-aigoihna
elative		*aigasta-aigasta	*aigasta-aigoista
illative		*aigasta-aikahën	*aigasta-aikoihën
adessive		*aigasta-aigalla	*aigasta-aigoilla
ablative		*aigasta-aigalta	*aigasta-aigoilta
allative		*aigasta-aikalën *aigasta-aikalëk	*aigasta-aikoilën *aigasta-aikoilëk
essive		*aigasta-aikana	*aigasta-aikoina
translative		*aigasta-aigaksi	*aigasta-aigoiksi
instructive		*aigasta-aigan	*aigasta-aigoin
comitative		*aigasta-aikanëk	*aigasta-aikoinëk
abessive		*aigasta-aigatta	*aigasta-aigoitta

Descendants

• Estonian: aasta
  • → Finnish: aasta
• Finnish: ajastaika, (dialectal) ajasta-aika, aasaika, aastaika
• Ingrian: aastaika
• Livonian: āigast
• Võro: aastak, aastaig, ajastaig, aasta
• Votic: aigassaika (Pummala)
  • Kukkuzi: aastaika

Further reading

• “aasta”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
• Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “ajastaika”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä‎^[1] (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