Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kürsä
Proto-Finnic
Etymology
From Proto-Finno-Permic *kürsä, compare Erzya кши (kši), кше (kše) and Moksha кши (kši). Possibly ultimately an early borrowing from Proto-Balto-Slavic *krušā́ˀ.[1]
Noun
*kürsä[2]
Inflection
Inflection of *kürsä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *kürsä | *kürsät | |
| accusative | *kürsän | *kürsät | |
| genitive | *kürsän | *kürsäden *kürseiden | |
| partitive | *kürsädä | *kürseidä | |
| inessive | *kürsässä *kürsähnä |
*kürseissä *kürseihnä | |
| elative | *kürsästä | *kürseistä | |
| illative | *kürsähen | *kürseihen | |
| adessive | *kürsällä | *kürseillä | |
| ablative | *kürsältä | *kürseiltä | |
| allative | *kürsälen *kürsälek |
*kürseilen *kürseilek | |
| essive | *kürsänä | *kürseinä | |
| translative | *kürsäksi | *kürseiksi | |
| instructive | *kürsän | *kürsein | |
| comitative | *kürsänek | *kürseinek | |
| abessive | *kürsättä | *kürseittä | |
Descendants
- Estonian: (dialectal; Viljandi) kürss
- Finnish: kyrsä
- Karelian:
- South Karelian: kyržä, kyrzä
- Livvi: kyrzy
- Ludian: kürz
- Veps: kürz
- Võro: (Mulgi) kürss
References
Further reading
- Entry #1351 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “kyrsä”, in 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