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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/minä
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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
From Proto-Uralic *minä. The *-u in oblique forms originates from a dual inflection, which has otherwise been lost; compare the Proto-Samic first-person dual pronoun *monōj.
Inflection
Inflection of *minä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *minä | — | |
| accusative | *minun | — | |
| genitive | *minun | — | |
| partitive | *minuda | — | |
| inessive | *minussa *minuhna |
— | |
| elative | *minusta | — | |
| illative | *minuhën | — | |
| adessive | *minulla | — | |
| ablative | *minulta | — | |
| allative | *minulën *minulëk |
— | |
| essive | *minuna | — | |
| translative | *minuksi | — | |
| instructive | *minun | — | |
| comitative | *minunëk | — | |
| abessive | *minutta | — | |
Descendants
References
- mina in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN
- Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000) Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words] (in Finnish), [note: linked online version also includes some other etymological sources], Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
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