Reconstruction:Proto-Samic/miellē

This Proto-Samic 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-Samic

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Norse [script needed] (*melha-) (whence Old Norse melr).[1]

Noun

*miellē

  1. riverbank

Inflection

Even
Nominative *miellē
Genitive *miel̯l̯ēn
Singular Plural
Nominative *miellē *miel̯l̯ēk
Accusative *miel̯l̯ēm *miel̯l̯ijtē
Partitive *miellētē
Genitive *miel̯l̯ēn *miel̯l̯ij
Essive *miellēnē *miel̯l̯ijnē
Inessive *miel̯l̯ēsnē
Elative *miel̯l̯ēstē *miel̯l̯ijstē
Illative *miellās̯ën —
Comitative *miel̯l̯ijnē
*miel̯l̯ijnë 		—
Abessive *miel̯l̯ēptāk̯ëk —

Descendants

  • Western Samic:
    • Pite Sami: mälˈle
    • Lule Sami: mielˈle
    • Northern Sami: mielˈli
  • Eastern Samic:
  • → Finnish: (dialectal) mella

Further reading

  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

References

  1. ^ Aikio, Ante. 2009. The Saami loanwords in Finnish and Karelian. PhD thesis. University of Oulu.
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