Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/vakto
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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-Germanic *þwahtuz.
Noun edit
*vakto
Inflection edit
Inflection of *vakto
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *vakto | *vaktot | |
| accusative | *vakton | *vaktot | |
| genitive | *vakton | *vaktodën *vaktoidën | |
| partitive | *vaktoda | *vaktoida | |
| inessive | *vaktossa *vaktohna |
*vaktoissa *vaktoihna | |
| elative | *vaktosta | *vaktoista | |
| illative | *vaktohën | *vaktoihën | |
| adessive | *vaktolla | *vaktoilla | |
| ablative | *vaktolta | *vaktoilta | |
| allative | *vaktolën *vaktolëk |
*vaktoilën *vaktoilëk | |
| essive | *vaktona | *vaktoina | |
| translative | *vaktoksi | *vaktoiksi | |
| instructive | *vakton | *vaktoin | |
| comitative | *vaktonëk | *vaktoinëk | |
| abessive | *vaktotta | *vaktoitta | |
Descendants edit
- Estonian: vaht
- Finnish: vaahto, (dialectal) vahto
- Ingrian: vaahto
- Karelian: vuahti
- Livonian: vǭ
- Livvi: vuahti
- Ludian: vuahte
- Veps: vaht
- Võro: vatt
- Votic: vaahto
Further reading edit
- “vaht”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012