Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/seemi

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-Finno-Permic *śäme- (whence Moksha симомс (simoms, “to drink”)).

Noun

*seemi[1]

  1. sip, gulp

Inflection

Inflection of *seemi
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
singular plural
nominative *seemi *seemet
accusative *seemen *seemet
genitive *seemen *seenden
*seemiden
partitive *seentä *seemidä
inessive *seemessä
*seemehnä 		*seemissä
*seemihnä
elative *seemestä *seemistä
illative *seemehen *seemihen
adessive *seemellä *seemillä
ablative *seemeltä *seemiltä
allative *seemelen
*seemelek 		*seemilen
*seemilek
essive *seemenä *seeminä
translative *seemeksi *seemiksi
instructive *seemen *seemin
comitative *seemenek *seeminek
abessive *seemettä *seemittä

Descendants

  • Estonian: seem (dialectal)
  • Finnish: siemi (dialectal)
  • ⇒ Livonian: sēmḑa (“milk”)

From *sëëmu:

  • Estonian: sõõm
  • Võro: syym

References

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

Further reading

  • “sõõm”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Entry #1587 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
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