Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/seemen
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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 *sḗˀmen, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.
Noun
[edit]*seemen[1]
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of *seemen
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *seemen | *seemenet | |
| accusative | *seemenen | *seemenet | |
| genitive | *seemenen | *seemenden *seemeniden | |
| partitive | *seementä | *seemenitä | |
| inessive | *seemenessä *seemenehnä |
*seemenissä *seemenihnä | |
| elative | *seemenestä | *seemenistä | |
| illative | *seemenesen | *seemenisen | |
| adessive | *seemenellä | *seemenillä | |
| ablative | *seemeneltä | *seemeniltä | |
| allative | *seemenelen *seemenelek |
*seemenilen *seemenilek | |
| essive | *seemennä | *seemeninä | |
| translative | *seemeneksi | *seemeniksi | |
| instructive | *seemenen | *seemenin | |
| comitative | *seemennek | *seemeninek | |
| abessive | *seemenettä | *seemenittä | |
Descendants
[edit]- Estonian: seeme
- Finnish: siemen
- Ingrian: seemen
- Karelian: siemen, šiemen
- Livonian: sīemgõz
- Livvi: siemen
- Ludian: šiemeń
- Veps: semen
- Võro: seemen, seemeq
- Votic: seeme
References
[edit]- “seeme”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012