Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kevät
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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-Finno-Permic *keŋä (“spring, summer”).[1] Cognate with Eastern Mari кеҥеж (keŋež, “summer”) and Western Mari кӓнгӹж (kängÿž, “summer”).[2] This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Particularly: “suffix”
Noun
[edit]*kevät[3]
- spring (season)
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of *kevät
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *kevät | *kevädet | |
| accusative | *keväden | *kevädet | |
| genitive | *keväden | *kevät'en *keväciden | |
| partitive | *kevättä | *keväcitä | |
| inessive | *kevädessä *kevädehnä |
*keväcissä *keväcihnä | |
| elative | *kevädestä | *keväcistä | |
| illative | *kevädesen | *keväcisen | |
| adessive | *kevädellä | *keväcillä | |
| ablative | *kevädeltä | *keväciltä | |
| allative | *kevädelen *kevädelek |
*keväcilen *keväcilek | |
| essive | *kevännä | *keväcinä | |
| translative | *kevädeksi | *keväciksi | |
| instructive | *keväden | *keväcin | |
| comitative | *kevännek | *keväcinek | |
| abessive | *kevädettä | *keväcittä | |
Descendants
[edit]- Estonian: kevad
- Finnish: kevät
- Ingrian: kevät
- Karelian:
- North Karelian: kevät
- Livonian: kievād, (Salaca) ķävad
- Livvi: kevät
- Ludian: keväd
- Votic: čeväd
From *kevä(d)ä (levelled):
- Karelian:
- South Karelian: keviä
From *keväs (levelled?):
From ? *keväjä ~ *kevägä:
- Võro: kevväi
References
[edit]- ^ Entry #1300 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- ^ Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004), “kevät”, in Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
- ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–), “*kevät”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary][1] (in Finnish)
Further reading
[edit]- Erkki Itkonen, Ulla-Maija Kulonen, editors (1992–2000), “kevät”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The Origin of Finnish Words][2] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN