Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/seemi
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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]From Proto-Finno-Permic *śäme- (whence Moksha симомс (śimoms, “to drink”)).
Noun
[edit]*seemi[1]
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of *seemi
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *seemi | *seemet | |
| accusative | *seemen | *seemet | |
| genitive | *seemen | *seenden *seemiden | |
| partitive | *seentä | *seemidä | |
| inessive | *seemessä *seemehnä |
*seemissä *seemihnä | |
| elative | *seemestä | *seemistä | |
| illative | *seemehen | *seemihen | |
| adessive | *seemellä | *seemillä | |
| ablative | *seemeltä | *seemiltä | |
| allative | *seemelen *seemelek |
*seemilen *seemilek | |
| essive | *seemenä | *seeminä | |
| translative | *seemeksi | *seemiksi | |
| instructive | *seemen | *seemin | |
| comitative | *seemenek | *seeminek | |
| abessive | *seemettä | *seemittä | |
Descendants
[edit]- Estonian: seem (dialectal)
- Finnish: siemi (dialectal)
- ⇒ Finnish: siemaista
- ⇒ Livonian: sēmḑa (“milk”)
From *sëëmu:
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sõõm”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Entry #1587 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.