Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/nepsä

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

Unknown.

Adjective

*nepsä[1]

  1. moist, damp

Inflection

Inflection of *nepsä
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
singular plural
nominative *nepsä *nepsät
accusative *nepsän *nepsät
genitive *nepsän *nepsäden
*nepseiden
partitive *nepsädä *nepseidä
inessive *nepsässä
*nepsähnä 		*nepseissä
*nepseihnä
elative *nepsästä *nepseistä
illative *nepsähen *nepseihen
adessive *nepsällä *nepseillä
ablative *nepsältä *nepseiltä
allative *nepsälen
*nepsälek 		*nepseilen
*nepseilek
essive *nepsänä *nepseinä
translative *nepsäksi *nepseiksi
instructive *nepsän *nepsein
comitative *nepsänek *nepseinek
abessive *nepsättä *nepseittä

Descendants

From *nepsä:

  • Finnish: nepsä (dialectal)
  • Karelian: nepsä, nepsa
  • Livvi: nepsy
  • Veps: neps
  • ⇒ Votic: nepsiä

From *nepse-:

  • Estonian: (dialectal) nepse
  • Võro: nesse, nesseq

References

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