Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/saina
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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-Baltic [Term?] (whence Latvian siena and Lithuanian siena).
Noun
[edit]*saina[1]
- wall (structure acting as side or division in a building)
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of *saina
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *saina | *sainat | |
| accusative | *sainan | *sainat | |
| genitive | *sainan | *sainadën *sainoidën | |
| partitive | *sainada | *sainoida | |
| inessive | *sainassa *sainahna |
*sainoissa *sainoihna | |
| elative | *sainasta | *sainoista | |
| illative | *sainahën | *sainoihën | |
| adessive | *sainalla | *sainoilla | |
| ablative | *sainalta | *sainoilta | |
| allative | *sainalën *sainalëk |
*sainoilën *sainoilëk | |
| essive | *sainana | *sainoina | |
| translative | *sainaksi | *sainoiksi | |
| instructive | *sainan | *sainoin | |
| comitative | *sainanëk | *sainoinëk | |
| abessive | *sainatta | *sainoitta | |
Descendants
[edit]- Estonian: sein
- Finnish: seinä
- Ingrian: seinä
- Karelian:
- Livonian: sāina
- Livvi: seiny
- Ludian: sein, šein
- Veps: sein, siin
- Võro: sain
- Votic: seine
- → Proto-Samic: *seajnē
References
[edit]- “sein”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012