Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kadikka

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

Unknown, possibly onomatopoeic, but anyway recent (due to *-ti- / *-di-). Apparently contains the diminutive suffix +‎ *-kka.

Noun

*kadikka

1. stick

Inflection

Inflection of *kadikka

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*kadikka	*kadik'at
accusative		*kadik'an	*kadik'at
genitive		*kadik'an	*kadikkadën *kadikkoidën
partitive		*kadikkata	*kadikkoita
inessive		*kadik'assa *kadik'ahna	*kadik'oissa *kadik'oihna
elative		*kadik'asta	*kadik'oista
illative		*kadikkasën	*kadikkoisën
adessive		*kadik'alla	*kadik'oilla
ablative		*kadik'alta	*kadik'oilta
allative		*kadikkalën *kadikkalëk	*kadikkoilën *kadikkoilëk
essive		*kadikkana	*kadikkoina
translative		*kadik'aksi	*kadik'oiksi
instructive		*kadik'an	*kadik'oin
comitative		*kadikkanëk	*kadikkoinëk
abessive		*kadik'atta	*kadik'oitta

Descendants

From *kadikka:

• Finnish: (dialectal) kadikka, karikka, kalikka
• Votic: kadikkõ

From *kadik'as:

• Estonian: kaigas
  • → Livonian: kāika
• Võro: kaigas
• Votic: kadikõz

Further reading

• “kaigas”, 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), “kadikka”, in 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