Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/hirvi
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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 earlier *širwe, from a Balto-Slavic source similar to that of *hirvas. Proto-Samic *sërvë has the same origin.
Noun edit
*hirvi
Inflection edit
Inflection of *hirvi
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *hirvi | *hirvet | |
| accusative | *hirven | *hirvet | |
| genitive | *hirven | *hirveden *hirviden | |
| partitive | *hirvedä | *hirvidä | |
| inessive | *hirvessä *hirvehnä |
*hirvissä *hirvihnä | |
| elative | *hirvestä | *hirvistä | |
| illative | *hirvehen | *hirvihen | |
| adessive | *hirvellä | *hirvillä | |
| ablative | *hirveltä | *hirviltä | |
| allative | *hirvelen *hirvelek |
*hirvilen *hirvilek | |
| essive | *hirvenä | *hirvinä | |
| translative | *hirveksi | *hirviksi | |
| instructive | *hirven | *hirvin | |
| comitative | *hirvenek | *hirvinek | |
| abessive | *hirvettä | *hirvittä | |
Descendants edit
- Estonian: hirv
- Finnish: hirvi
- Ingrian: hirvi, hervi
- Karelian:
- Livonian: īra
- Livvi: hirvi
- Ludian: hirv
- Veps: hirvoi
- Votic: irvi
References edit
- “hirv”, 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), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words][1] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN