Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kanta
Proto-Finnic
editEtymology
editPossibly from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kanta.
Noun
edit*kanta
Inflection
editInflection of *kanta
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
singular | plural | ||
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nominative | *kanta | *kandat | |
accusative | *kandan | *kandat | |
genitive | *kandan | *kantadën *kantoidën | |
partitive | *kantada | *kantoida | |
inessive | *kandassa *kandahna |
*kandoissa *kandoihna | |
elative | *kandasta | *kandoista | |
illative | *kantahën | *kantoihën | |
adessive | *kandalla | *kandoilla | |
ablative | *kandalta | *kandoilta | |
allative | *kantalën *kantalëk |
*kantoilën *kantoilëk | |
essive | *kantana | *kantoina | |
translative | *kandaksi | *kandoiksi | |
instructive | *kandan | *kandoin | |
comitative | *kantanëk | *kantoinëk | |
abessive | *kandatta | *kandoitta |
Descendants
edit- Estonian: kand
- Finnish: kanta
- → Northern Sami: gáddu
- Ingrian: kanta
- Karelian:
- Livonian: kūonda
- Livvi: kandu
- Ludian: kand
- Veps: kand
- Votic: kantõ
Further reading
edit- “kand”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Entry #235 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “kanta”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words][1] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN