Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/-inëk

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-Finno-Permic [Term?]. Cognate with Proto-Samic *-jnē and Proto-Mordvinic [Term?] (compare Erzya -нек (-nek)).

Suffix

*-inëk / *-inek

  1. Comitative case ending.

Usage notes

  • Relatively marginal in most Finnic languages, if exists at all: many have developed a new comitative case by fusing a postposition.

Reconstruction notes

  • The *-i- is quite often taken as part of the suffix (e.g. by Itkonen (1983)[1] and Korhonen (1988)[2]), but is often synchronically analyzed as a plural marker. In Proto-Finnic, this suffix may not have had a number distinction.

Descendants

  • Finnish: -ne
  • >? Votic: (Jõgõperä) -nõõ, -nee

References

  1. ^ Terho Itkonen (1983) “Välikatsaus suomen kielen juuriin”, in Virittäjä (in Finnish), 83:2, pp. 190-229, pages 366–368
  2. ^ Mikko Korhonen (1988) “The History of the Lapp language”, in Denis Sinor, editor, The Uralic Languages (in Finnish), Leiden: Brill, page 280
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