Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/vacca
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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]Unknown. Sometimes considered to be related to Northern Mansi [script needed] (waś). Parpola (2017) notes a meaning 'womb' in some descendants and proposes early borrowing from Proto-Indo-Iranian *watsás (“calf”), whence also *vasa (“calf”).[1] Holopainen (2019) rejects both of said etymologies.[2] Any connection to Proto-Mordvinic *vačə (“hunger”) is uncertain and the similarity may be coincidental.
Noun
[edit]*vacca[3]
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of *vacca
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *vacca | *vac'at | |
| accusative | *vac'an | *vac'at | |
| genitive | *vac'an | *vaccadën *vaccoidën | |
| partitive | *vaccada | *vaccoida | |
| inessive | *vac'assa *vac'ahna |
*vac'oissa *vac'oihna | |
| elative | *vac'asta | *vac'oista | |
| illative | *vaccahën | *vaccoihën | |
| adessive | *vac'alla | *vac'oilla | |
| ablative | *vac'alta | *vac'oilta | |
| allative | *vaccalën *vaccalëk |
*vaccoilën *vaccoilëk | |
| essive | *vaccana | *vaccoina | |
| translative | *vac'aksi | *vac'oiksi | |
| instructive | *vac'an | *vac'oin | |
| comitative | *vaccanëk | *vaccoinëk | |
| abessive | *vac'atta | *vac'oitta | |
Descendants
[edit]- Estonian: vats
- Finnish: vatsa, (dialectal) vatta
- → Proto-Samic: *fāttē (see there for further descendants)
- Ingrian: vatsa
- Karelian:
- Livonian: vatsā
- Livvi: vačču
- Ludian: vačč, vacc
- Veps: vac
- Votic: vattsõ
References
[edit]- ^ Parpola, Asko. 2017. "Finnic vatsa ~ Sanskrit vatsá- and the formation on Indo-Iranian and Uralic languages". Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja 96: 245–286.
- ^ Holopainen, Sampsa. 2019. Indo-Iranian borrowings in Uralic : Critical overview of sound substitutions and distribution criterion. [1]. pp. 293–295.
- ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*vacca”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary][2] (in Finnish)
Further reading
[edit]- “vats”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012