Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/sürjä
Proto-Finnic
Etymology
Possibly borrowed from Proto-Baltic *sturjas (whence Latvian stūris (“corner”), dialectal Lithuanian stūrỹs, stùris (“corner”)), or alternatively from Proto-Finno-Permic *śürjä (if cognate with Erzya чире (čire, “edge, river bank”) and Eastern Mari шӧр (šör, “edge”)); the two theories are not mutually exclusive, if the word was borrowed early from Balto-Slavic.
Noun
*sürjä
Inflection
Inflection of *sürjä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *sürjä | *sürjät | |
| accusative | *sürjän | *sürjät | |
| genitive | *sürjän | *sürjäden *sürjeiden | |
| partitive | *sürjädä | *sürjeidä | |
| inessive | *sürjässä *sürjähnä |
*sürjeissä *sürjeihnä | |
| elative | *sürjästä | *sürjeistä | |
| illative | *sürjähen | *sürjeihen | |
| adessive | *sürjällä | *sürjeillä | |
| ablative | *sürjältä | *sürjeiltä | |
| allative | *sürjälen *sürjälek |
*sürjeilen *sürjeilek | |
| essive | *sürjänä | *sürjeinä | |
| translative | *sürjäksi | *sürjeiksi | |
| instructive | *sürjän | *sürjein | |
| comitative | *sürjänek | *sürjeinek | |
| abessive | *sürjättä | *sürjeittä | |
Descendants
- Estonian: (dialectal) süri
- Finnish: syrjä
- Ingrian: syrjä
- Karelian:
- North Karelian: šyrjä
- South Karelian: šyrjä
- Livvi: syrjy
- Ludian: sürd'
- Veps: sürj
- Votic: sürje
Further reading
- “süri”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “syrjä”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The Origin of Finnish Words][1] (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