Reconstruction:Proto-Permic/meda

This Proto-Permic 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.

This Proto-Permic entry contains original research. The reconstruction in this entry is based on published research, but the specific form presented here is not found in prior works.

Proto-Permic

Etymology

From *med (“payment”) +‎ *-a.

Noun

*meda (stem *meda-)

1. hire (hired worker)

Adjective

*meda (stem *meda-, plural predicative *medaäś)

1. hired

Declension

Declension of *meda (stem: *meda-)
		singular	plural
nominative		*meda	*medajas
accusative	indefinite	*meda	*medajas
	definite	*medaäs	*medajasäs
instrumental		*medaän	*medajasän
caritive		*medatäk	*medajastäk
consecutive		*medala	*medajasla
genitive		*medalän	*medajaslän
ablative		*medaliś	*medajasliś
dative		*medali	*medajasli
inessive		*medain	*medajasin
elative		*medaiś	*medajasiś
illative		*medaä	*medajasä
egressive		*medaśań	*medajasśań
approximative		*medalań	*medajaslań
terminative		*medaäʒ́	*medajasäʒ́
translative		*medati	*medajasti

Descendants

• Komi:
  • Komi-Zyrian: меда (meda)
• Udmurt: (dated) медо (medo)

Further reading

• Lytkin, V. I., Gulyaev, E. S., editors (1970), “мед”, in Краткий этимологический словарь коми языка [Brief Etymological Dictionary of the Komi Language]‎^[1] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka