Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/vaino

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

Probably borrowed from Early Old East Slavic воина (voina), from Proto-Slavic *vojьna. Alternatively, and less likely, borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (whence Latvian vaina).

Noun

*vaino

1. hostility, hatred, persecution
2. war

   Synonym: *sota

Inflection

Inflection of *vaino

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*vaino	*vainot
accusative		*vainon	*vainot
genitive		*vainon	*vainodën *vainoidën
partitive		*vainoda	*vainoida
inessive		*vainossa *vainohna	*vainoissa *vainoihna
elative		*vainosta	*vainoista
illative		*vainohën	*vainoihën
adessive		*vainolla	*vainoilla
ablative		*vainolta	*vainoilta
allative		*vainolën *vainolëk	*vainoilën *vainoilëk
essive		*vainona	*vainoina
translative		*vainoksi	*vainoiksi
instructive		*vainon	*vainoin
comitative		*vainonëk	*vainoinëk
abessive		*vainotta	*vainoitta

Descendants

• Estonian: vaen
• Finnish: vaino
  • → Northern Sami: váidnu
  • → Inari Sami: váinu
  • → Skolt Sami: väinn
• Karelian:
  • >? North Karelian: (folk poetic) vaino
• Võro: vain

Further reading

• “vaen”, 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), “vaino”, 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