Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/seppä

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-Ugric *śeppä (“skilled”). Cognate with Proto-Samic *čeappē (“skilled, adept”), Hungarian szép (“beautiful”).

Noun

*seppä^[1]

smith

Inflection

Inflection of *seppä

	singular	plural
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
nominative	*seppä	*sep'ät
accusative	*sep'än	*sep'ät
genitive	*sep'än	seppäden seppeiden
partitive	*seppädä	*seppeidä
inessive	sep'ässä sep'ähnä	sep'eissä sep'eihnä
elative	*sep'ästä	*sep'eistä
illative	*seppähen	*seppeihen
adessive	*sep'ällä	*sep'eillä
ablative	*sep'ältä	*sep'eiltä
allative	seppälen seppälek	seppeilen seppeilek
essive	*seppänä	*seppeinä
translative	*sep'äksi	*sep'eiksi
instructive	*sep'än	*sep'ein
comitative	*seppänek	*seppeinek
abessive	*sep'ättä	*sep'eittä

Descendants

Estonian: sepp
Finnish: seppä
Ingrian: seppä
Karelian: šeppä
Livonian: siepā
Livvi: seppy
Ludian: sepp
Veps: sep
Võro: sepp
Votic: seppe

References

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

Entry #956 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

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

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