Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kärnä

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

Possibly from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kärnä. Alternatively, a front vowel variant of *karna.

Noun

*kärnä[1]

  1. tree bark
  2. scab
    Synonym: *rupi

Inflection

Inflection of *kärnä
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
singular plural
nominative *kärnä *kärnät
accusative *kärnän *kärnät
genitive *kärnän *kärnäden
*kärneiden
partitive *kärnädä *kärneidä
inessive *kärnässä
*kärnähnä 		*kärneissä
*kärneihnä
elative *kärnästä *kärneistä
illative *kärnähen *kärneihen
adessive *kärnällä *kärneillä
ablative *kärnältä *kärneiltä
allative *kärnälen
*kärnälek 		*kärneilen
*kärneilek
essive *kärnänä *kärneinä
translative *kärnäksi *kärneiksi
instructive *kärnän *kärnein
comitative *kärnänek *kärneinek
abessive *kärnättä *kärneittä

Descendants

  • Estonian: kärn
  • Finnish: (dialectal) kärnä
  • Ingrian: kärnä
  • Veps: ⇒ kärnak
  • Võro: kärn
  • Votic: tšärnä

References

  1. ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*kärnä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎[1] (in Finnish)

Further reading

  • “kärn”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Entry #268 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
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