Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/emä
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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
From Proto-Uralic *emä.
Noun edit
*emä
Inflection edit
Inflection of *emä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *emä | *emät | |
| accusative | *emän | *emät | |
| genitive | *emän | *emäden *emeiden | |
| partitive | *emädä | *emeidä | |
| inessive | *emässä *emähnä |
*emeissä *emeihnä | |
| elative | *emästä | *emeistä | |
| illative | *emähen | *emeihen | |
| adessive | *emällä | *emeillä | |
| ablative | *emältä | *emeiltä | |
| allative | *emälen *emälek |
*emeilen *emeilek | |
| essive | *emänä | *emeinä | |
| translative | *emäksi | *emeiksi | |
| instructive | *emän | *emein | |
| comitative | *emänek | *emeinek | |
| abessive | *emättä | *emeittä | |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Estonian: ema
- Finnish: emä
- Ingrian: emä
- Karelian: emä
- Livonian: jemā
- Livvi: emä
- Ludian: emä
- Veps: ema
- Võro: imä
- Votic: emä
Further reading edit
- “ema”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012