Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kükkü
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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
editEtymology
editPossibly borrowed and derived from Proto-Germanic *hūkaną; alternatively sound-symbolic.
Noun
edit*kükkü
- squat (bended position)
Inflection
editInflection of *kükkü
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *kükkü | *kük'üt | |
| accusative | *kük'ün | *kük'üt | |
| genitive | *kük'ün | *kükküden *kükküiden | |
| partitive | *kükküdä | *kükküidä | |
| inessive | *kük'üssä *kük'ühnä |
*kük'üissä *kük'üihnä | |
| elative | *kük'üstä | *kük'üistä | |
| illative | *kükkühen | *kükküihen | |
| adessive | *kük'üllä | *kük'üillä | |
| ablative | *kük'ültä | *kük'üiltä | |
| allative | *kükkülen *kükkülek |
*kükküilen *kükküilek | |
| essive | *kükkünä | *kükküinä | |
| translative | *kük'üksi | *kük'üiksi | |
| instructive | *kük'ün | *kük'üin | |
| comitative | *kükkünek | *kükküinek | |
| abessive | *kük'üttä | *kük'üittä | |
Descendants
edit- Estonian: kükk
- Finnish: kyykky, (dialectal) kykky
- Ingrian: kykky
- Karelian:
- South Karelian: kyykkä
- Võro: kükk
Further reading
edit- “kükk”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012