Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/vainijo

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Norse [script needed] (*hwainiō), from Proto-Germanic *hwainō (whence dialectal Swedish ven, hven (“swampy field”)).

Noun

*vainijo

1. meadow, field, pasture

Inflection

Inflection of *vainijo

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*vainijo	*vainijot
accusative		*vainijon	*vainijot
genitive		*vainijon	*vainijodën *vainijoidën
partitive		*vainijota	*vainijoita
inessive		*vainijossa *vainijohna	*vainijoissa *vainijoihna
elative		*vainijosta	*vainijoista
illative		*vainijosën	*vainijoisën
adessive		*vainijolla	*vainijoilla
ablative		*vainijolta	*vainijoilta
allative		*vainijolën *vainijolëk	*vainijoilën *vainijoilëk
essive		*vainijona	*vainijoina
translative		*vainijoksi	*vainijoiksi
instructive		*vainijon	*vainijoin
comitative		*vainijonëk	*vainijoinëk
abessive		*vainijotta	*vainijoitta

Descendants

• Estonian: vain, vainu, (dialectal) vainiu, vainija
• Finnish: vainio
  • → Karelian:
    • North Karelian: vainivo

Further reading

• “vain”, 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), “vainio”, 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