Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/looko
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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-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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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