Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/sekä

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

Possibly from Proto-Uralic *sekä (“inside, among”).

Particle

*sekä

1. mixed
2. among

Derived terms

• *segät'äk

Descendants

• Estonian: sega-, ⇒ sekka (illative), seas (inessive), seast (elative)
• ⇒ Livonian: siegās (inessive), sieʾggõ (illative)
• Võro: segä-, ⇒ sekkä (illative), seehn (inessive), seest (elative)

In Northern Finnic, the root has adopted back-vowel harmony (*sëka):

• Finnish: seka-, ⇒ sekaan (illative), seassa (inessive), seasta (elative)
• Ingrian: seka-, ⇒ sekkaa (illative), seas (inessive), seast (elative)
• Karelian:
  • North Karelian: šeka- ⇒ šekah (illative), šejašša (inessive), šejašta (elative)
  • South Karelian: šega- ⇒ šegah (illative), šejašša (inessive), šejašta (elative)
• Livvi: sega-, ⇒ segah (illative)
• Ludian: sega-
• Veps: sega
• → Proto-Samic: *seakē (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “segama”, 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), “seka”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN