Reconstruction:Proto-Permic/aj

This Proto-Permic 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-Permic

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *äjjä. Cognates include Proto-Finnic *äijä and Proto-Samic *ājjē.

Noun

*aj (stem *ajj-)

1. patriarch
2. male animal

Declension

Declension of *aj (stem: *ajj-)
		singular	plural
nominative		*aj	*ajjas
accusative	indefinite	*aj	*ajjas
	definite	*ajjäs	*ajjasäs
instrumental		*ajjän	*ajjasän
caritive		*ajtäk	*ajjastäk
consecutive		*ajla	*ajjasla
genitive		*ajlän	*ajjaslän
ablative		*ajliś	*ajjasliś
dative		*ajli	*ajjasli
inessive		*ajjin	*ajjasin
elative		*ajjiś	*ajjasiś
illative		*ajjä	*ajjasä
egressive		*ajśań	*ajjasśań
approximative		*ajlań	*ajjaslań
terminative		*ajjäʒ́	*ajjasäʒ́
translative		*ajti	*ajjasti

Descendants

• Komi:
  • Komi-Permyak: ай (aj)
  • Komi-Yazva: ай (aj)
  • Komi-Zyrian: ай (aj)
  • Old Komi: 𐍐𐍙 (aj)
• Udmurt: айы (ajy)
  • Beserman: айө (ajå)

References

• Lytkin, V. I., Gulyaev, E. S., editors (1970), “ай”, in Краткий этимологический словарь коми языка [Brief Etymological Dictionary of the Komi Language]‎^[1] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka
• V. I. Alatyrev, editor (1988), “айы”, in Этимологический словарь удмуртского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Udmurt Language]‎^[2] (in Russian), Izhevsk: НИИ при СМ