Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kepjä

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

From Proto-Uralic *kepä.

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Adjective

*kepjä

  1. light, of little weight

Inflection

Inflection of *kepjä
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
singular plural
nominative *kepjä *kepjät
accusative *kepjän *kepjät
genitive *kepjän *kepjäden
*kepjeiden
partitive *kepjädä *kepjeidä
inessive *kepjässä
*kepjähnä 		*kepjeissä
*kepjeihnä
elative *kepjästä *kepjeistä
illative *kepjähen *kepjeihen
adessive *kepjällä *kepjeillä
ablative *kepjältä *kepjeiltä
allative *kepjälen
*kepjälek 		*kepjeilen
*kepjeilek
essive *kepjänä *kepjeinä
translative *kepjäksi *kepjeiksi
instructive *kepjän *kepjein
comitative *kepjänek *kepjeinek
abessive *kepjättä *kepjeittä

Descendants

  • Estonian: kebja
  • Finnish: keviä, (originally a misconstruction) keveä, ⇒ kevyt
  • Karelian:
    • North Karelian: kepie
    • South Karelian: kebie
  • Livonian: kievām
  • Livvi: kebjei
  • Ludian: kebď, kebďed
  • Veps: kebn, kebnei
  • Võro: kebja
  • Votic: (Lempola, Mati, Pummala) tšebjä

Further reading

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