Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/peikälo
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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
Probably from earlier *pelkälo, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *pelkä, *pälkä (“thumb”).
Noun edit
*peikälo
Inflection edit
Inflection of *peikälo
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *peikälo | *peikälot | |
| accusative | *peikälon | *peikälot | |
| genitive | *peikälon | *peikälodën *peikäloidën | |
| partitive | *peikälota | *peikäloita | |
| inessive | *peikälossa *peikälohna |
*peikäloissa *peikäloihna | |
| elative | *peikälosta | *peikäloista | |
| illative | *peikälosën | *peikäloisën | |
| adessive | *peikälolla | *peikäloilla | |
| ablative | *peikälolta | *peikäloilta | |
| allative | *peikälolën *peikälolëk |
*peikäloilën *peikäloilëk | |
| essive | *peikälona | *peikäloina | |
| translative | *peikäloksi | *peikäloiksi | |
| instructive | *peikälon | *peikäloin | |
| comitative | *peikälonëk | *peikäloinëk | |
| abessive | *peikälotta | *peikäloitta | |
Descendants edit
- Estonian: pöial
- Finnish: peukalo, (dialectal) peikalo
- Ingrian: peukalo, peukolo, peukola, peukala
- Karelian: (Northern) peikalo, (Southern) peigalo
- Livonian: pēgal
- Livvi: peigalo/peigoi
- Ludian: peigal
- Veps: peigol
- Votic: peukolo, (Mati) peiko
Further reading edit
- “pöial”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Entry #723 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.