Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/varbëh
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Proto-Finnic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (whence Swedish varv (“layer, turn, layer of logs in building”)).[1]
Noun
[edit]*varbëh
- bulwark (planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel)
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of *varbëh
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 | *varbëh | *varpëhët | |
accusative | *varpëhën | *varpëhët | |
genitive | *varpëhën | *varbëhtën *varpëhidën | |
partitive | *varbëhta | *varpëhita | |
inessive | *varpëhëssa *varpëhëhna |
*varpëhissa *varpëhihna | |
elative | *varpëhësta | *varpëhista | |
illative | *varpëhësën | *varpëhisën | |
adessive | *varpëhëlla | *varpëhilla | |
ablative | *varpëhëlta | *varpëhilta | |
allative | *varpëhëlën *varpëhëlëk |
*varpëhilën *varpëhilëk | |
essive | *varpëhëna | *varpëhina | |
translative | *varpëhëksi | *varpëhiksi | |
instructive | *varpëhën | *varpëhin | |
comitative | *varpëhënëk | *varpëhinëk | |
abessive | *varpëhëtta | *varpëhitta |
Descendants
[edit]- Finnish: (dialectal) varve
From *varp'ëh:
References
[edit]- ^ Kylstra, A.D.; Hahmo, Sirkka-Liisa; Hofstra, Tette; Nikkilä, Otto. 1991–2012. Lexikon der älteren germanischen Lehnwörter in den ostseefinnischen Sprachen. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Further reading
[edit]- Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “varpe”, in 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