Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/ragënta

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (whence Lithuanian rakanda).

Noun

*ragënta

1. milk pail

Inflection

Inflection of *ragënta

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*ragënta	*ragëndat
accusative		*ragëndan	*ragëndat
genitive		*ragëndan	*ragëntadën *ragëntoidën
partitive		*ragëntata	*ragëntoita
inessive		*ragëndassa *ragëndahna	*ragëndoissa *ragëndoihna
elative		*ragëndasta	*ragëndoista
illative		*ragëntasën	*ragëntoisën
adessive		*ragëndalla	*ragëndoilla
ablative		*ragëndalta	*ragëndoilta
allative		*ragëntalën *ragëntalëk	*ragëntoilën *ragëntoilëk
essive		*ragëntana	*ragëntoina
translative		*ragëndaksi	*ragëndoiksi
instructive		*ragëndan	*ragëndoin
comitative		*ragëntanëk	*ragëntoinëk
abessive		*ragëndatta	*ragëndoitta

Descendants

• Estonian: (dialectal) raand
• Finnish: (dialectal) rainta, raenta, rajenta
• Ingrian: raenta
• Karelian:
  • South Karelian: raenda (dialectal)
• Livvi: rajendo
• Ludian: ragend
• Veps: ragend

Further reading

• “raand”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
• Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “rainta”, 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