Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/virkedä

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

*virke- +‎ *-edä; unknown root. Cognate with Proto-Samic *vërkë.

Adjective

*virkedä^[1]

alert, brisk

Declension

Inflection of *virkedä

	singular	plural
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
nominative	*virkedä	*virkedät
accusative	*virkedän	*virkedät
genitive	*virkedän	virkedäden virkedeiden
partitive	*virkedätä	*virkedeitä
inessive	virkedässä virkedähnä	virkedeissä virkedeihnä
elative	*virkedästä	*virkedeistä
illative	*virkedäsen	*virkedeisen
adessive	*virkedällä	*virkedeillä
ablative	*virkedältä	*virkedeiltä
allative	virkedälen virkedälek	virkedeilen virkedeilek
essive	*virkedänä	*virkedeinä
translative	*virkedäksi	*virkedeiksi
instructive	*virkedän	*virkedein
comitative	*virkedänek	*virkedeinek
abessive	*virkedättä	*virkedeittä

Related terms

*virgot'ak

Descendants

Estonian: virge
Finnish: virkeä
Livonian: ⇒ virgzi
Võro: virgõ

References

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

“virge”, 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), “virkeä”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The Origin of Finnish Words]‎^[2] (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

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

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