Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kärsä

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 borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian (whence Sanskrit कर्षू (karṣū, “furrow”)).[1]

Noun

*kärsä[2]

  1. snout (of a pig)

Inflection

Inflection of *kärsä
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
singular plural
nominative *kärsä *kärsät
accusative *kärsän *kärsät
genitive *kärsän *kärsäden
*kärseiden
partitive *kärsädä *kärseidä
inessive *kärsässä
*kärsähnä 		*kärseissä
*kärseihnä
elative *kärsästä *kärseistä
illative *kärsähen *kärseihen
adessive *kärsällä *kärseillä
ablative *kärsältä *kärseiltä
allative *kärsälen
*kärsälek 		*kärseilen
*kärseilek
essive *kärsänä *kärseinä
translative *kärsäksi *kärseiksi
instructive *kärsän *kärsein
comitative *kärsänek *kärseinek
abessive *kärsättä *kärseittä

Descendants

  • Estonian: kärss
  • Finnish: kärsä
  • Ingrian: kärsä
    • →? Votic: kärse
  • Karelian:
    North Karelian: kärsä
    South Karelian: kärzä
  • Livvi: kärzy
  • Ludian: kärz
  • Veps: kärz
  • Võro: kärs

Further reading

  • “kärss”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012

References

  1. ^ Holopainen, Sampsa (2019) Indo-Iranian borrowings in Uralic: Critical overview of sound substitutions and distribution criterion‎[1], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN, pages 128–130
  2. ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*kärsä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎[2] (in Finnish)
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