Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/vako
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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 [Term?] (whence Latvian vaga (“furrow”), Lithuanian vaga (“furrow”)).
Noun
[edit]*vako[1]
- furrow (in soil)
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of *vako
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *vako | *vagot | |
| accusative | *vagon | *vagot | |
| genitive | *vagon | *vakodën *vakoidën | |
| partitive | *vakoda | *vakoida | |
| inessive | *vagossa *vagohna |
*vagoissa *vagoihna | |
| elative | *vagosta | *vagoista | |
| illative | *vakohën | *vakoihën | |
| adessive | *vagolla | *vagoilla | |
| ablative | *vagolta | *vagoilta | |
| allative | *vakolën *vakolëk |
*vakoilën *vakoilëk | |
| essive | *vakona | *vakoina | |
| translative | *vagoksi | *vagoiksi | |
| instructive | *vagon | *vagoin | |
| comitative | *vakonëk | *vakoinëk | |
| abessive | *vagotta | *vagoitta | |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Estonian: vagu
- Finnish: vako
- Ingrian: vako
- Karelian:
- Livonian: (Courland) va'g, (Salaca) vag
- Livvi: vago
- Ludian: vago
- Veps: vago
- Võro: vago
- Votic: vako
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “vagu”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012