Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/vërkko
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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-Germanic *werką, whence Old Swedish värke (“fish weir”), dialectal Swedish verke.
Noun
[edit]*vërkko[1]
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of *vërkko
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *vërkko | *vërk'ot | |
| accusative | *vërk'on | *vërk'ot | |
| genitive | *vërk'on | *vërkkodën *vërkkoidën | |
| partitive | *vërkkoda | *vërkkoida | |
| inessive | *vërk'ossa *vërk'ohna |
*vërk'oissa *vërk'oihna | |
| elative | *vërk'osta | *vërk'oista | |
| illative | *vërkkohën | *vërkkoihën | |
| adessive | *vërk'olla | *vërk'oilla | |
| ablative | *vërk'olta | *vërk'oilta | |
| allative | *vërkkolën *vërkkolëk |
*vërkkoilën *vërkkoilëk | |
| essive | *vërkkona | *vërkkoina | |
| translative | *vërk'oksi | *vërk'oiksi | |
| instructive | *vërk'on | *vërk'oin | |
| comitative | *vërkkonëk | *vërkkoinëk | |
| abessive | *vërk'otta | *vërk'oitta | |
Descendants
[edit]- Estonian: võrk
- Finnish: verkko
- Ingrian: verkko
- Karelian: verkko
- Livonian: võrgõ
- Livvi: verko
- Ludian: verk
- Veps: verk
- Võro: võrk
- Votic: võrkko
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “võrk”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012