Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kälü
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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]
From Proto-Uralic *kälew. Cognates include Proto-Samic *kālōjeannē, Moksha кел (kel), Komi-Zyrian кев (kev, “sister-in-law”).
Noun[edit]
*kälü
- brother's wife, husband's brother's wife; sister-in-law
Inflection[edit]
Inflection of *kälü
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *kälü | *kälüt | |
| accusative | *kälün | *kälüt | |
| genitive | *kälün | *kälüden *kälüiden | |
| partitive | *kälüdä | *kälüidä | |
| inessive | *kälüssä *kälühnä |
*kälüissä *kälüihnä | |
| elative | *kälüstä | *kälüistä | |
| illative | *kälühen | *kälüihen | |
| adessive | *kälüllä | *kälüillä | |
| ablative | *kälültä | *kälüiltä | |
| allative | *kälülen *kälülek |
*kälüilen *kälüilek | |
| essive | *kälünä | *kälüinä | |
| translative | *kälüksi | *kälüiksi | |
| instructive | *kälün | *kälüin | |
| comitative | *kälünek | *kälüinek | |
| abessive | *kälüttä | *kälüittä | |
Descendants[edit]
- Estonian: käli
- Finnish: käly
- Ingrian: käly
- Karelian: käly
- Livonian: kä'l
- Livvi: käly
- Ludian: kälü
- Veps: kälü
- Võro: kälü
- Votic: tšälü
References[edit]
- “käli”, 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