Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/helmi
Proto-Finnic
Etymology
Unknown. Possibly a substrate loan from the pre-Finnic languages of the Baltic.
Noun
*helmi[1]
Inflection
Inflection of *helmi
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *helmi | *helmet | |
| accusative | *helmen | *helmet | |
| genitive | *helmen | *helmeden *helmiden | |
| partitive | *helmedä | *helmidä | |
| inessive | *helmessä *helmehnä |
*helmissä *helmihnä | |
| elative | *helmestä | *helmistä | |
| illative | *helmehen | *helmihen | |
| adessive | *helmellä | *helmillä | |
| ablative | *helmeltä | *helmiltä | |
| allative | *helmelen *helmelek |
*helmilen *helmilek | |
| essive | *helmenä | *helminä | |
| translative | *helmeksi | *helmiksi | |
| instructive | *helmen | *helmin | |
| comitative | *helmenek | *helminek | |
| abessive | *helmettä | *helmittä | |
Synonyms
- (drop): *pisara
Descendants
- Estonian: helmes
- Finnish: helmi
- Ingrian: helmi
- Karelian: helmi
- Livonian: eļm, ēļmaz
- Livvi: helmi
- Ludian: hölmü
- Veps: hel'm
- Võro: helm'
- Votic: elmi
- → Northern Sami: helbmu
References
- “helmes”, 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), 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