Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kecrä
Proto-Finnic
Etymology
From earlier *kečrä, borrowed from early Indo-Iranian *ketstram (whence Sanskrit चात्त्र (cāttra), from *čatstram). The same word has been borrowed also to other Uralic languages: Proto-Samic *kearsē, Erzya шчире (ščire), Moksha кштирь (kštiŕ), Eastern Mari шӱдыр (šüdyr).
Reconstruction
Over the 20th century often reconstructed as *kešträ or *kesträ (compare also *acraga, *icra, *ocra). Reconstruction of this word group with an affricate has been first suggested by Äimä (1921), and is defended by Kallio (2012: 230–231) on the grounds that early Proto-Finnic did not allow clusters of three or more consonants.
Noun
*kecrä[1]
Inflection
Inflection of *kecrä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *kecrä | *kecrät | |
| accusative | *kecrän | *kecrät | |
| genitive | *kecrän | *kecräden *kecreiden | |
| partitive | *kecrädä | *kecreidä | |
| inessive | *kecrässä *kecrähnä |
*kecreissä *kecreihnä | |
| elative | *kecrästä | *kecreistä | |
| illative | *kecrähen | *kecreihen | |
| adessive | *kecrällä | *kecreillä | |
| ablative | *kecrältä | *kecreiltä | |
| allative | *kecrälen *kecrälek |
*kecreilen *kecreilek | |
| essive | *kecränä | *kecreinä | |
| translative | *kecräksi | *kecreiksi | |
| instructive | *kecrän | *kecrein | |
| comitative | *kecränek | *kecreinek | |
| abessive | *kecrättä | *kecreittä | |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Estonian: keder
- Finnish: kehrä, (Eastern) keträ
- Karelian:
- North Karelian: kesrä
- South Karelian: kezrä
- Livonian: kie'ddõr
- Livvi: kezry
- Ludian: kezr
- Veps: kezr
- Võro: ⇒ keeri
References
- Äimä, Frans. 1921. "Lisänen ahrain sanan etymologiaan". — Virittäjä 25: 63–.
- 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
- Kallio, Petri. 2012. "The Prehistoric Germanic Loanword Strata in Finnic." — A Linguistic Map of Prehistoric Northern Europe. Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia 266: 225–238.
- Koivulehto, Jorma. 2001. "The earliest contacts between Indo-European and Uralic speakers in the light of lexical loans". — Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European. Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia 242: 235–263.