Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/lakso
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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 forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]According to Kallio (2022), possibly a more recent Baltic borrowing from the same source as *lakci (“bay, gulf”), specifically from a form like *lanktja- (borrowed into Early Proto-Finnic *lakća or Middle Proto-Finnic *lakca).[1]
Noun
[edit]*lakso[2]
- (wet) valley, depression
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of *lakso
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *lakso | *laksot | |
| accusative | *lakson | *laksot | |
| genitive | *lakson | *laksodën *laksoidën | |
| partitive | *laksoda | *laksoida | |
| inessive | *laksossa *laksohna |
*laksoissa *laksoihna | |
| elative | *laksosta | *laksoista | |
| illative | *laksohën | *laksoihën | |
| adessive | *laksolla | *laksoilla | |
| ablative | *laksolta | *laksoilta | |
| allative | *laksolën *laksolëk |
*laksoilën *laksoilëk | |
| essive | *laksona | *laksoina | |
| translative | *laksoksi | *laksoiksi | |
| instructive | *lakson | *laksoin | |
| comitative | *laksonëk | *laksoinëk | |
| abessive | *laksotta | *laksoitta | |
Descendants
[edit]- Estonian: (dialectal, Martna) laks (“puddle”)
- Finnish: laakso (“valley”), (dialectal) lakso
- Ingrian: laksu (“glade, field”), lakso
- Karelian:
- South Karelian: lakšu (“glen”)
- Veps: laks (“ravine”)
References
[edit]- ^ Petri Kallio (2022) “The etymology of Finnish laakso 'valley'”, in Jeremy Bradley, editor, Tonavan Laakso: Eine Festschrift für Johanna Laakso (Central European Uralic Studies), volume 2, Praesens Verlag, →ISBN, pages 56–62
- ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*lakso”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary][1] (in Finnish)
Further reading
[edit]- Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “laakso”, in 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