Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/auvo

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

Possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *aują (whence Old Norse ey (“luck, heavenly aid”)).

Noun

*auvo

1. honor/honour, respect

Declension

Inflection of *auvo

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*auvo	*auvot
accusative		*auvon	*auvot
genitive		*auvon	*auvodën *auvoidën
partitive		*auvoda	*auvoida
inessive		*auvossa *auvohna	*auvoissa *auvoihna
elative		*auvosta	*auvoista
illative		*auvohën	*auvoihën
adessive		*auvolla	*auvoilla
ablative		*auvolta	*auvoilta
allative		*auvolën *auvolëk	*auvoilën *auvoilëk
essive		*auvona	*auvoina
translative		*auvoksi	*auvoiksi
instructive		*auvon	*auvoin
comitative		*auvonëk	*auvoinëk
abessive		*auvotta	*auvoitta

Descendants

• Estonian: au
• Finnish: auvo
  • → Northern Sami: ávvu
• Karelian:
  • North Karelian: auvo
• Livonian: o’v, ouv
• Võro: avv, au

Further reading

• “au”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012