Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/keühä
Appearance
Proto-Finnic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Likely borrowed from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (“shy, embarrassed, loathsome, odious”), despite the difference in meaning.
Adjective
[edit]*keühä[1]
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of *keühä
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 | *keühä | *keühät | |
accusative | *keühän | *keühät | |
genitive | *keühän | *keühäden *keüheiden | |
partitive | *keühädä | *keüheidä | |
inessive | *keühässä *keühähnä |
*keüheissä *keüheihnä | |
elative | *keühästä | *keüheistä | |
illative | *keühähen | *keüheihen | |
adessive | *keühällä | *keüheillä | |
ablative | *keühältä | *keüheiltä | |
allative | *keühälen *keühälek |
*keüheilen *keüheilek | |
essive | *keühänä | *keüheinä | |
translative | *keühäksi | *keüheiksi | |
instructive | *keühän | *keühein | |
comitative | *keühänek | *keüheinek | |
abessive | *keühättä | *keüheittä |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Estonian: kehv
- Finnish: köyhä
- Ingrian: köyhä
- → Votic: köühe
- Karelian:
- Livvi: keyhy
- Ludian: köüh
- Veps: köuh
- Võro: kehv
- Votic: (Kattila) tšöühä
- → Southern Sami: giehvie
- → Lule Sami: giehe
- → Northern Sami: geafi
- → Inari Sami: kieyhi
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “kehv”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words][2] (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