Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/tërva
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Proto-Finnic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A loanword from either Baltic (compare Proto-Balto-Slavic *dérwa) or Germanic (compare Proto-Germanic *terwą). Either way from Proto-Indo-European *dérw-o-m, from *dóru (“wood”).
Noun
[edit]*tërva
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of *tërva
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 | *tërva | *tërvat | |
accusative | *tërvan | *tërvat | |
genitive | *tërvan | *tërvadën *tërvoidën | |
partitive | *tërvada | *tërvoida | |
inessive | *tërvassa *tërvahna |
*tërvoissa *tërvoihna | |
elative | *tërvasta | *tërvoista | |
illative | *tërvahën | *tërvoihën | |
adessive | *tërvalla | *tërvoilla | |
ablative | *tërvalta | *tërvoilta | |
allative | *tërvalën *tërvalëk |
*tërvoilën *tërvoilëk | |
essive | *tërvana | *tërvoina | |
translative | *tërvaksi | *tërvoiksi | |
instructive | *tërvan | *tërvoin | |
comitative | *tërvanëk | *tërvoinëk | |
abessive | *tërvatta | *tërvoitta |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Estonian: tõrv
- Finnish: terva
- Ingrian: terva
- Karelian: terva
- Livonian: tȭra
- Livvi: tervu
- Ludian: terv
- Veps: terv
- Võro: tõrv
- Votic: tõrvõ
- → Proto-Samic: *tërvē
References
[edit]- “tõrv”, 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][1] (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
Categories:
- Proto-Finnic terms borrowed from Baltic languages
- Proto-Finnic terms derived from Baltic languages
- Proto-Finnic terms borrowed from Germanic languages
- Proto-Finnic terms derived from Germanic languages
- Proto-Finnic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Finnic lemmas
- Proto-Finnic nouns
- Proto-Finnic nominals by type/a-oi