Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/vimpa
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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.
Noun
[edit]*vimpa[1]
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of *vimpa
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *vimpa | *vimbat | |
| accusative | *vimban | *vimbat | |
| genitive | *vimban | *vimpadën *vimpoidën | |
| partitive | *vimpada | *vimpoida | |
| inessive | *vimbassa *vimbahna |
*vimboissa *vimboihna | |
| elative | *vimbasta | *vimboista | |
| illative | *vimpahën | *vimpoihën | |
| adessive | *vimballa | *vimboilla | |
| ablative | *vimbalta | *vimboilta | |
| allative | *vimpalën *vimpalëk |
*vimpoilën *vimpoilëk | |
| essive | *vimpana | *vimpoina | |
| translative | *vimbaksi | *vimboiksi | |
| instructive | *vimban | *vimboin | |
| comitative | *vimpanëk | *vimpoinëk | |
| abessive | *vimbatta | *vimboitta | |
Descendants
[edit]- Estonian: vimb
- Finnish: vimpa
- Ingrian: vimpa
- Livonian: vīmba
- → Latvian: vimba
- Votic: vimpõ
- → Russian: (dialectal) [script needed] (výmba)
Further reading
[edit]- “vimb”, 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), “vimpa”, 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