Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/samo

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *sammo

Etymology

Unknown.

Noun

*samo

1. step

   Synonym: *askël

2. run

   Synonym: *jooksu

Inflection

Inflection of *samo

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*samo	*samot
accusative		*samon	*samot
genitive		*samon	*samodën *samoidën
partitive		*samoda	*samoida
inessive		*samossa *samohna	*samoissa *samoihna
elative		*samosta	*samoista
illative		*samohën	*samoihën
adessive		*samolla	*samoilla
ablative		*samolta	*samoilta
allative		*samolën *samolëk	*samoilën *samoilëk
essive		*samona	*samoina
translative		*samoksi	*samoiksi
instructive		*samon	*samoin
comitative		*samonëk	*samoinëk
abessive		*samotta	*samoitta

Descendants

From *samo ~ *sammo:

• Estonian: samm, (dialectal) samu, (archaic) samo, samb (“step”)
• Finnish: (obsolete) samo (“run, hurry, high speed”), ⇒ samota (“to wander, to run, to hurry”)
• Karelian:
  • North Karelian: ⇒ samota (“to gallop”)
• Livonian: sa’m (“step”)
• Võro: samm (“step”)
• Votic:
  • Krevinian: ⇒ śamun (“I run”), saamub (“he/she/it runs”)

Further reading

• “sammuma”, 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), “samota”, 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