Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/räntä
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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]Possibly borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (whence Lithuanian drengti).
Noun
[edit]*räntä
- sleet (precipitation of rain–snow mixture)
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of *räntä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *räntä | *rändät | |
| accusative | *rändän | *rändät | |
| genitive | *rändän | *räntäden *ränteiden | |
| partitive | *räntädä | *ränteidä | |
| inessive | *rändässä *rändähnä |
*rändeissä *rändeihnä | |
| elative | *rändästä | *rändeistä | |
| illative | *räntähen | *ränteihen | |
| adessive | *rändällä | *rändeillä | |
| ablative | *rändältä | *rändeiltä | |
| allative | *räntälen *räntälek |
*ränteilen *ränteilek | |
| essive | *räntänä | *ränteinä | |
| translative | *rändäksi | *rändeiksi | |
| instructive | *rändän | *rändein | |
| comitative | *räntänek | *ränteinek | |
| abessive | *rändättä | *rändeittä | |
Descendants
[edit]- Estonian: ränd
- Finnish: räntä
- Ingrian: ränne (< *rändeh)
- Karelian:
- Livvi: rändy
- Ludian: ränd
- Veps: ränd
- Votic: ränne, ränte (< *rändeh)
Further reading
[edit]- Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “räntä”, 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