Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kehnä
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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]Unknown.
Noun
[edit]*kehnä
- dandruff or similar dirt
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of *kehnä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *kehnä | *kehnät | |
| accusative | *kehnän | *kehnät | |
| genitive | *kehnän | *kehnäden *kehneiden | |
| partitive | *kehnädä | *kehneidä | |
| inessive | *kehnässä *kehnähnä |
*kehneissä *kehneihnä | |
| elative | *kehnästä | *kehneistä | |
| illative | *kehnähen | *kehneihen | |
| adessive | *kehnällä | *kehneillä | |
| ablative | *kehnältä | *kehneiltä | |
| allative | *kehnälen *kehnälek |
*kehneilen *kehneilek | |
| essive | *kehnänä | *kehneinä | |
| translative | *kehnäksi | *kehneiksi | |
| instructive | *kehnän | *kehnein | |
| comitative | *kehnänek | *kehneinek | |
| abessive | *kehnättä | *kehneittä | |
Descendants
[edit]From *keühnä:
Further reading
[edit]- “kihn”, 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), “kehnä”, 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