Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/-icci

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *-ic'ëk

Etymology

Aikio and Ylikoski (2016) proposes that the prolative ending, which they reconstruct as *-iccek (the form attested in Finnish), is in fact a contraction of a Finno-Samic postposition *śüδik (with a cognate in Proto-Samic *čëδëk, and from the same stem as *śüdäme with a lative ending), through the development *-n śüδik (*-n is the genitive ending) > *-ńśüik > *-ńćik (> (Late) Proto-Finnic *-iccek). Alternatively possibly from the oblique stem *-icce- of *-inën.

Suffix

*-icci

1. by way of, via

Descendants

• Estonian: -itsi, -tsi
• Finnish: -itse
• Karelian: -ičči
• Livvi: -iči
• Veps: -iči