Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/lunas
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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 *lunaz.
Noun
[edit]*lunas
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of *lunas
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *lunas | *lunahët | |
| accusative | *lunahën | *lunahët | |
| genitive | *lunahën | *lunastën *lunahidën | |
| partitive | *lunasta | *lunahita | |
| inessive | *lunahëssa *lunahëhna |
*lunahissa *lunahihna | |
| elative | *lunahësta | *lunahista | |
| illative | *lunahësën | *lunahisën | |
| adessive | *lunahëlla | *lunahilla | |
| ablative | *lunahëlta | *lunahilta | |
| allative | *lunahëlën *lunahëlëk |
*lunahilën *lunahilëk | |
| essive | *lunassa | *lunahina | |
| translative | *lunahëksi | *lunahiksi | |
| instructive | *lunahën | *lunahin | |
| comitative | *lunassëk | *lunahinëk | |
| abessive | *lunahëtta | *lunahitta | |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Finnish: lunas (obsolete)
From *luna
- Estonian: luna
From *lunnas
- Finnish: lunnaat pl, (rare) lunnas
- Karelian: lunnas
- → Inari Sami: lones
- → Lule Sami: lånes
- → Northern Sami: lonis
Further reading
[edit]- “luna”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012