Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/rastas

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-Baltic *trazdas (whence Latvian strazds and Lithuanian strãzdas), from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos.

Noun

*rastas

1. thrush

Inflection

Inflection of *rastas

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*rastas	*rastahët
accusative		*rastahën	*rastahët
genitive		*rastahën	*rastastën *rastahidën
partitive		*rastasta	*rastahita
inessive		*rastahëssa *rastahëhna	*rastahissa *rastahihna
elative		*rastahësta	*rastahista
illative		*rastahësën	*rastahisën
adessive		*rastahëlla	*rastahilla
ablative		*rastahëlta	*rastahilta
allative		*rastahëlën *rastahëlëk	*rastahilën *rastahilëk
essive		*rastassa	*rastahina
translative		*rastahëksi	*rastahiksi
instructive		*rastahën	*rastahin
comitative		*rastassëk	*rastahinëk
abessive		*rastahëtta	*rastahitta

Descendants

• Finnish: rastas
• Karelian:
  • North Karelian: raššaš
  • South Karelian: rassas
• ⇒ Livvi: račoi
• Livonian: rastā (in compound: liegārastā)
• ⇒ Ludian: ratšuoi

From *rästäs:

• Estonian: rästas
• Finnish: (dialectal) rästäs
• Ingrian: rästäs
• Võro: rästäs
• Votic: (Mati) räsäz

Further reading

• “rästas”, 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), “rastas”, 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