Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kaima
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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 edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (whence Latvian ciems, kaimiņš and Lithuanian kaimas).
Noun edit
*kaima
- namesake (person with the same name as another person)
Inflection edit
Inflection of *kaima
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *kaima | *kaimat | |
| accusative | *kaiman | *kaimat | |
| genitive | *kaiman | *kaimadën *kaimoidën | |
| partitive | *kaimada | *kaimoida | |
| inessive | *kaimassa *kaimahna |
*kaimoissa *kaimoihna | |
| elative | *kaimasta | *kaimoista | |
| illative | *kaimahën | *kaimoihën | |
| adessive | *kaimalla | *kaimoilla | |
| ablative | *kaimalta | *kaimoilta | |
| allative | *kaimalën *kaimalëk |
*kaimoilën *kaimoilëk | |
| essive | *kaimana | *kaimoina | |
| translative | *kaimaksi | *kaimoiksi | |
| instructive | *kaiman | *kaimoin | |
| comitative | *kaimanëk | *kaimoinëk | |
| abessive | *kaimatta | *kaimoitta | |
Descendants edit
- Estonian: kaim
- Finnish: kaima
- Ingrian: kaima
- Karelian: kaima
- Livonian: kāima
- Livvi: kaimu
- Ludian: kaimo
- Votic: kaimõ
- → Proto-Samic: *kājmē
Further reading edit
- “kaim”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012