Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/ripsi

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

Cognate with Proto-Samic *rëpsë, both probably borrowed by metathesis from Proto-Germanic *hrispō (whence Swedish risp (“oat panicle”)).

Noun

*ripsi

1. oat panicle
2. eyelash

Inflection

Inflection of *ripsi

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*ripsi	*ripset
accusative		*ripsen	*ripset
genitive		*ripsen	*risten *ripsiden
partitive		*ristä	*ripsidä
inessive		*ripsessä *ripsehnä	*ripsissä *ripsihnä
elative		*ripsestä	*ripsistä
illative		*ripsehen	*ripsihen
adessive		*ripsellä	*ripsillä
ablative		*ripseltä	*ripsiltä
allative		*ripselen *ripselek	*ripsilen *ripsilek
essive		*rissä	*ripsinä
translative		*ripseksi	*ripsiksi
instructive		*ripsen	*ripsin
comitative		*rissek	*ripsinek
abessive		*ripsettä	*ripsittä

Descendants

• Estonian: ⇒ ripse
• Finnish: ripsi
• Karelian:
  • North Karelian: ripsi
  • South Karelian: ripsi
• Livonian: rips
• Livvi: ripsi
• Votic: ripsi

From *ripsu:

• Finnish: ripsu
• Ingrian: ripsu
• Karelian:
  • North Karelian: ripšu
  • South Karelian: ripšu
• Livvi: ripsu
• Ludian: rips, ripš
• Veps: rips

Further reading

• “ripse”, 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), “ripsi”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The Origin of Finnish Words]‎^[2] (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