Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/sepä

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 *śepä (“neck”).

Noun

*sepä[1]

  1. neck
    Synonym: *kakla
  2. the front part of a sleigh that curves upwards

Inflection

Inflection of *sepä
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
singular plural
nominative *sepä *sebät
accusative *sebän *sebät
genitive *sebän *sepäden
*sepeiden
partitive *sepädä *sepeidä
inessive *sebässä
*sebähnä 		*sebeissä
*sebeihnä
elative *sebästä *sebeistä
illative *sepähen *sepeihen
adessive *sebällä *sebeillä
ablative *sebältä *sebeiltä
allative *sepälen
*sepälek 		*sepeilen
*sepeilek
essive *sepänä *sepeinä
translative *sebäksi *sebeiksi
instructive *sebän *sebein
comitative *sepänek *sepeinek
abessive *sebättä *sebeittä

Coordinate terms

Descendants

  • Estonian: (dialectal) seba
  • Finnish: sepä
  • Ingrian: sepä- (in compound: sepävitsa)
  • Karelian:
    • North Karelian: šepä
    • South Karelian: šebä
  • Livonian: sebā- (in compound: sebāvitsā)
  • Livvi: sebä
  • Ludian: šebä
  • Veps: seba
  • Votic:

References

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

Further reading

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