Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/ektä

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

Related to Proto-Samic [Term?] (compare Northern Sami ikte, which may be a Finnic loan. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

*ektä

1. evening

Inflection

Inflection of *ektä

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*ektä	*ektät
accusative		*ektän	*ektät
genitive		*ektän	*ektäden *ekteiden
partitive		*ektädä	*ekteidä
inessive		*ektässä *ektähnä	*ekteissä *ekteihnä
elative		*ektästä	*ekteistä
illative		*ektähen	*ekteihen
adessive		*ektällä	*ekteillä
ablative		*ektältä	*ekteiltä
allative		*ektälen *ektälek	*ekteilen *ekteilek
essive		*ektänä	*ekteinä
translative		*ektäksi	*ekteiksi
instructive		*ektän	*ektein
comitative		*ektänek	*ekteinek
abessive		*ektättä	*ekteittä

Related terms

• ? *ektago

Descendants

• Estonian: eha, (dialectal) õha
• Finnish: (dialectal) ehtä, ehta
• Karelian: ehtä
• Livvi: ehty
• Ludian: eht
• Veps: eht

Further reading

• “eha”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
• Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “ehtä”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN