Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/karta
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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]Borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (whence Latvian skārds, Lithuanian skarda).
Noun
[edit]*karta
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of *karta
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *karta | *kardat | |
| accusative | *kardan | *kardat | |
| genitive | *kardan | *kartadën *kartoidën | |
| partitive | *kartada | *kartoida | |
| inessive | *kardassa *kardahna |
*kardoissa *kardoihna | |
| elative | *kardasta | *kardoista | |
| illative | *kartahën | *kartoihën | |
| adessive | *kardalla | *kardoilla | |
| ablative | *kardalta | *kardoilta | |
| allative | *kartalën *kartalëk |
*kartoilën *kartoilëk | |
| essive | *kartana | *kartoina | |
| translative | *kardaksi | *kardoiksi | |
| instructive | *kardan | *kardoin | |
| comitative | *kartanëk | *kartoinëk | |
| abessive | *kardatta | *kardoitta | |
Descendants
[edit]- Estonian: kard
- Finnish: karta (dialectal)
- Ingrian: karta
- Livonian: kārda
- Võro: kard
- Votic: kartõ
- →? Kildin Sami: ка̄ррьт (kārr’t)
- →? Ter Sami: ка̄ррьт (kâ̄rrʼt)
Further reading
[edit]- “kard”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012