Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kaima

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

Borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (whence Latvian ciems, kaimiņš and Lithuanian kaimas).

Noun

*kaima

1. namesake (person with the same name as another person)

Inflection

Inflection of *kaima

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*kaima	*kaimat
accusative		*kaiman	*kaimat
genitive		*kaiman	*kaimadën *kaimoidën
partitive		*kaimada	*kaimoida
inessive		*kaimassa *kaimahna	*kaimoissa *kaimoihna
elative		*kaimasta	*kaimoista
illative		*kaimahën	*kaimoihën
adessive		*kaimalla	*kaimoilla
ablative		*kaimalta	*kaimoilta
allative		*kaimalën *kaimalëk	*kaimoilën *kaimoilëk
essive		*kaimana	*kaimoina
translative		*kaimaksi	*kaimoiksi
instructive		*kaiman	*kaimoin
comitative		*kaimanëk	*kaimoinëk
abessive		*kaimatta	*kaimoitta

Descendants

• Estonian: kaim
• Finnish: kaima
• Ingrian: kaima
• Karelian: kaima
• Livonian: kāima
• Livvi: kaimu
• Ludian: kaimo
• Votic: kaimõ
• → Proto-Samic: *kājmē

Further reading

• “kaim”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012