Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/ilma
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Proto-Finnic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finno-Ugric *ilma. The old religious sense "heaven" was mainly lost (save for the theonym *Ilmari), replaced by the Indo-European loanword *taivas.
Noun
[edit]*ilma[1]
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of *ilma
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
singular | plural | ||
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nominative | *ilma | *ilmat | |
accusative | *ilman | *ilmat | |
genitive | *ilman | *ilmadën *ilmoidën | |
partitive | *ilmada | *ilmoida | |
inessive | *ilmassa *ilmahna |
*ilmoissa *ilmoihna | |
elative | *ilmasta | *ilmoista | |
illative | *ilmahën | *ilmoihën | |
adessive | *ilmalla | *ilmoilla | |
ablative | *ilmalta | *ilmoilta | |
allative | *ilmalën *ilmalëk |
*ilmoilën *ilmoilëk | |
essive | *ilmana | *ilmoina | |
translative | *ilmaksi | *ilmoiksi | |
instructive | *ilman | *ilmoin | |
comitative | *ilmanëk | *ilmoinëk | |
abessive | *ilmatta | *ilmoitta |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Estonian: ilm
- Finnish: ilma
- Ingrian: ilma
- Karelian:
- Livonian: īlma
- Livvi: ilmu
- Ludian: ilm
- Veps: il'm
- Võro: ilm
- Votic: ilmõ
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ilm”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012