Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/icäntä
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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]Alternative reconstructions
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *icä (“father”) + *-ntä.
Noun
[edit]*icäntä
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of *icäntä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *icäntä | *icändät | |
| accusative | *icändän | *icändät | |
| genitive | *icändän | *icäntäden *icänteiden | |
| partitive | *icäntätä | *icänteitä | |
| inessive | *icändässä *icändähnä |
*icändeissä *icändeihnä | |
| elative | *icändästä | *icändeistä | |
| illative | *icäntäsen | *icänteisen | |
| adessive | *icändällä | *icändeillä | |
| ablative | *icändältä | *icändeiltä | |
| allative | *icäntälen *icäntälek |
*icänteilen *icänteilek | |
| essive | *icäntänä | *icänteinä | |
| translative | *icändäksi | *icändeiksi | |
| instructive | *icändän | *icändein | |
| comitative | *icäntänek | *icänteinek | |
| abessive | *icändättä | *icändeittä | |
Coordinate terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Estonian: isand
- Finnish: isäntä
- Ingrian: isäntä
- Karelian:
- Livonian: izānd
- Livvi: izändy
- Ludian: ižänd, ižand
- Veps: ižand
- Võro: esänd
- Votic: isänte
Further reading
[edit]- Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “isäntä”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words][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