Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/looko
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Proto-Finnic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (compare dialectal Swedish slog (“haymaking”) and Icelandic slægja (“newly-harvested grass”)).
Noun
[edit]*looko
- windrow (cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field)
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of *looko
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 | *looko | *loogot | |
accusative | *loogon | *loogot | |
genitive | *loogon | *lookodën *lookoidën | |
partitive | *lookoda | *lookoida | |
inessive | *loogossa *loogohna |
*loogoissa *loogoihna | |
elative | *loogosta | *loogoista | |
illative | *lookohën | *lookoihën | |
adessive | *loogolla | *loogoilla | |
ablative | *loogolta | *loogoilta | |
allative | *lookolën *lookolëk |
*lookoilën *lookoilëk | |
essive | *lookona | *lookoina | |
translative | *loogoksi | *loogoiksi | |
instructive | *loogon | *loogoin | |
comitative | *lookonëk | *lookoinëk | |
abessive | *loogotta | *loogoitta |
Descendants
[edit]- Estonian: loog
- Finnish: luoko
- → Northern Sami: luohku
- Karelian:
- Livvi: luogo
- Ludian: luog
- Veps: logo
- Votic: looko, (rare) looku
Further reading
[edit]- “loog”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012