Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/mendinkä(inen)

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

Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *menþingō (later *minþingō) (whence Old Norse minning (“memory, recollection, remembrance”)). It's unclear if the suffix +‎ *-inën was already added in Proto-Finnic.

Noun

*mendinkä(inen)

1. spirit, ghost of a deceased person

Inflection

Inflection of *mendinkä(inen)

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*mendinkäinen	*mendinkäicet
accusative		*mendinkäicen	*mendinkäicet
genitive		*mendinkäicen	*mendingäicten *mendinkäiciden
partitive		*mendingäictä	*mendinkäicidä
inessive		*mendinkäicessä *mendinkäicehnä	*mendinkäicissä *mendinkäicihnä
elative		*mendinkäicestä	*mendinkäicistä
illative		*mendinkäicehen	*mendinkäicihen
adessive		*mendinkäicellä	*mendinkäicillä
ablative		*mendinkäiceltä	*mendinkäiciltä
allative		*mendinkäicelen *mendinkäicelek	*mendinkäicilen *mendinkäicilek
essive		*mendingäinnä	*mendinkäicinä
translative		*mendinkäiceksi	*mendinkäiciksi
instructive		*mendinkäicen	*mendinkäicin
comitative		*mendingäinnek	*mendinkäicinek
abessive		*mendinkäicettä	*mendinkäicittä

Descendants

• Finnish: menninkäinen
• ⇒? Karelian:
  • North Karelian: mönni
  • South Karelian: mönni

Further reading

• Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “menninkäinen”, 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