Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kärsä
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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]
Possibly borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian (whence Sanskrit कर्षू (karṣū, “furrow”)). [1]
Noun[edit]
*kärsä
- snout (of a pig)
Inflection[edit]
Inflection of *kärsä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *kärsä | *kärsät | |
| accusative | *kärsän | *kärsät | |
| genitive | *kärsän | *kärsäden *kärseiden | |
| partitive | *kärsädä | *kärseidä | |
| inessive | *kärsässä *kärsähnä |
*kärseissä *kärseihnä | |
| elative | *kärsästä | *kärseistä | |
| illative | *kärsähen | *kärseihen | |
| adessive | *kärsällä | *kärseillä | |
| ablative | *kärsältä | *kärseiltä | |
| allative | *kärsälen *kärsälek |
*kärseilen *kärseilek | |
| essive | *kärsänä | *kärseinä | |
| translative | *kärsäksi | *kärseiksi | |
| instructive | *kärsän | *kärsein | |
| comitative | *kärsänek | *kärseinek | |
| abessive | *kärsättä | *kärseittä | |
Descendants[edit]
- Estonian: kärss
- Finnish: kärsä
- Ingrian: kärsä
- →? Votic: kärse
- Karelian: kärsä (Northern), kärzä (Southern)
- Livvi: kärzy
- Ludian: kärz
- Veps: kärz
- Võro: kärs
Further reading[edit]
- “kärss”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012