Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/liha

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

Unknown. If from earlier *likša, the word may be connected to Proto-Samic *liškē (“surface, skin”), with an ancestral meaning "skin, meat, flesh" (which need not have been distinguished in the past). Since no further etymology is known, a borrowing from a substrate has been proposed.

Noun

*liha

1. meat, flesh

Inflection

Inflection of *liha

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*liha	*lihat
accusative		*lihan	*lihat
genitive		*lihan	*lihadën *lihoidën
partitive		*lihada	*lihoida
inessive		*lihassa *lihahna	*lihoissa *lihoihna
elative		*lihasta	*lihoista
illative		*lihahën	*lihoihën
adessive		*lihalla	*lihoilla
ablative		*lihalta	*lihoilta
allative		*lihalën *lihalëk	*lihoilën *lihoilëk
essive		*lihana	*lihoina
translative		*lihaksi	*lihoiksi
instructive		*lihan	*lihoin
comitative		*lihanëk	*lihoinëk
abessive		*lihatta	*lihoitta

Derived terms

• *lihaba
• *lihodak

Descendants

• Estonian: liha
• Finnish: liha
• Ingrian: liha
• Karelian: liha
• Livonian: leja
• Livvi: liha
• Ludian: liha
• Veps: liha
• Võro: liha
• Votic: liha

References

• “liha”, 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), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN