Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/reki

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

Perhaps borrowed from Baltic (compare Latvian ragavas, Latgalian rogovos, Lithuanian ragės), although the vowel in the first syllable is problematic.^[1]

Noun

*reki^[2]

sledge, sleigh

Inflection

Inflection of *reki

	singular	plural
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
nominative	*reki	*reget
accusative	*regen	*reget
genitive	*regen	rekeden rekiden
partitive	*rekedä	*rekidä
inessive	regessä regehnä	regissä regihnä
elative	*regestä	*registä
illative	*rekehen	*rekihen
adessive	*regellä	*regillä
ablative	*regeltä	*regiltä
allative	rekelen rekelek	rekilen rekilek
essive	*rekenä	*rekinä
translative	*regeksi	*regiksi
instructive	*regen	*regin
comitative	*rekenek	*rekinek
abessive	*regettä	*regittä

Coordinate terms

*sepä (“front part of a sleigh”)

Descendants

Estonian: regi
Finnish: reki
- → Inari Sami: riehâ
- → Skolt Sami: riâkk
- → Northern Sami: reahka
Ingrian: reki
Karelian: reki, regi
Livonian: re’ggõz
Livvi: regi
Ludian: regi
Veps: regi
Võro: regi
Votic: retši

References

^ Junttila, Santeri. The prehistoric context of the oldest contacts between Baltic and Finnic languages. SUST 266 (2012)
^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*reki”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎^[1] (in Finnish)

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

[1] Junttila, Santeri. The prehistoric context of the oldest contacts between Baltic and Finnic languages. SUST 266 (2012)

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

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