Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kurdëh

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 borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (whence Latvian kurls, Lithuanian kurtus, kurčias). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. suffix?

Adjective

*kurdëh

1. deaf

Inflection

Inflection of *kurdëh

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*kurdëh	*kurtëhët
accusative		*kurtëhën	*kurtëhët
genitive		*kurtëhën	*kurdëhtën *kurtëhidën
partitive		*kurdëhta	*kurtëhita
inessive		*kurtëhëssa *kurtëhëhna	*kurtëhissa *kurtëhihna
elative		*kurtëhësta	*kurtëhista
illative		*kurtëhësën	*kurtëhisën
adessive		*kurtëhëlla	*kurtëhilla
ablative		*kurtëhëlta	*kurtëhilta
allative		*kurtëhëlën *kurtëhëlëk	*kurtëhilën *kurtëhilëk
essive		*kurtëhëna	*kurtëhina
translative		*kurtëhëksi	*kurtëhiksi
instructive		*kurtëhën	*kurtëhin
comitative		*kurtëhënëk	*kurtëhinëk
abessive		*kurtëhëtta	*kurtëhitta

Descendants

• Estonian: (dialectal) kurre
• Veps: kurdiž
• Votic: kurrõ

From *kurtti:

• Estonian: kurt
• Võro: kurt'

From *kuurnëh:

• Finnish: (dialectal) kuurne, kuurnes, kuurna, ⇒? kuuro
• Karelian:
  • North Karelian: kuurneh, kuurnis
  • South Karelian: kuurnis
• Livvi: kuurnis, kuuris
• Ludian: kuurniž

Further reading

• “kurt”, 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), “kuuro”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN