Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kinder

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

Cognate with Proto-Samic *këntër. From the same root as *kinttu.

Noun

*kinder

1. hock, ham

Inflection

Inflection of *kinder

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*kinder	*kinteret
accusative		*kinteren	*kinteret
genitive		*kinteren	*kinderden *kinteriden
partitive		*kindertä	*kinteritä
inessive		*kinteressä *kinterehnä	*kinterissä *kinterihnä
elative		*kinterestä	*kinteristä
illative		*kinteresen	*kinterisen
adessive		*kinterellä	*kinterillä
ablative		*kintereltä	*kinteriltä
allative		*kinterelen *kinterelek	*kinterilen *kinterilek
essive		*kindernä	*kinterinä
translative		*kintereksi	*kinteriksi
instructive		*kinteren	*kinterin
comitative		*kindernek	*kinterinek
abessive		*kinterettä	*kinterittä

Descendants

• Estonian: kinner
• Finnish: kinner
• Karelian: kinner
• Livvi: kinner
• Ludian: kinder- (in compound: kinderkouk)
• Veps: kindred pl
• Võro: kinner'
• Votic: (Kattila) tšinner

Further reading

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