Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/lakci
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Proto-Finnic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From earlier *lakti (compare Proto-Samic *luoktë), borrowed from Proto-Baltic *lankti- (compare e.g. Lithuanian lanktis (“arc”), Lithuanian lanka (“valley, meadow”); Latvian līcis (“bay”)).
Noun
[edit]*lakci[1]
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of *lakci
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
singular | plural | ||
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nominative | *lakci | *laktët | |
accusative | *laktën | *laktët | |
genitive | *laktën | *laktën *lakcidën | |
partitive | *lakta | *lakcida | |
inessive | *laktëssa *laktëhna |
*lakcissa *lakcihna | |
elative | *laktësta | *lakcista | |
illative | *laktëhën | *lakcihën | |
adessive | *laktëlla | *lakcilla | |
ablative | *laktëlta | *lakcilta | |
allative | *laktëlën *laktëlëk |
*lakcilën *lakcilëk | |
essive | *laktëna | *lakcina | |
translative | *laktëksi | *lakciksi | |
instructive | *laktën | *lakcin | |
comitative | *laktënëk | *lakcinëk | |
abessive | *laktëtta | *lakcitta |
Descendants
[edit]Most descendants have -ht- in the nominative form, but this must be analogical, due to the word being mostly used in inflected forms. Swedish lax, common in placenames in Finland, preserves the Old Finnish form.
- Estonian: laht
- → Võro: laht'
- Finnish: lahti, (dialectal) laksi
- → Swedish: -lax (in toponyms)
- Ingrian: lahti, (obsolete) laksi
- Karelian:
- Livvi: lahti
- Ludian: laht
- Veps: laht
- Votic: lahti
- → Russian: лахта (laxta) (dialectal, Northern Russia)
- → Russian: -лохта (-loxta) (in toponyms in Northern Russia, particularly in Belozersk area and along rivers Mezen and Pinega)
- → Russian: -лахта (-laxta) (in toponyms in Northern Russia)
References
[edit]References
[edit]- “laht”, 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), 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