Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/auvo
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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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *aują (whence Old Norse ey (“luck, heavenly aid”)).
Noun
[edit]*auvo[1]
Declension
[edit]Inflection of *auvo
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *auvo | *auvot | |
| accusative | *auvon | *auvot | |
| genitive | *auvon | *auvodën *auvoidën | |
| partitive | *auvoda | *auvoida | |
| inessive | *auvossa *auvohna |
*auvoissa *auvoihna | |
| elative | *auvosta | *auvoista | |
| illative | *auvohën | *auvoihën | |
| adessive | *auvolla | *auvoilla | |
| ablative | *auvolta | *auvoilta | |
| allative | *auvolën *auvolëk |
*auvoilën *auvoilëk | |
| essive | *auvona | *auvoina | |
| translative | *auvoksi | *auvoiksi | |
| instructive | *auvon | *auvoin | |
| comitative | *auvonëk | *auvoinëk | |
| abessive | *auvotta | *auvoitta | |
Descendants
[edit]- Estonian: au
- Finnish: auvo
- → Northern Sami: ávvu
- Karelian:
- North Karelian: auvo
- Livonian: o’v, ouv
- Võro: avv, au
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “au”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012