Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kita
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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 edit
Etymology edit
Possibly from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kata.
Noun edit
*kita
Inflection edit
Inflection of *kita
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *kita | *kidat | |
| accusative | *kidan | *kidat | |
| genitive | *kidan | *kitadën *kitoidën | |
| partitive | *kitada | *kitoida | |
| inessive | *kidassa *kidahna |
*kidoissa *kidoihna | |
| elative | *kidasta | *kidoista | |
| illative | *kitahën | *kitoihën | |
| adessive | *kidalla | *kidoilla | |
| ablative | *kidalta | *kidoilta | |
| allative | *kitalën *kitalëk |
*kitoilën *kitoilëk | |
| essive | *kitana | *kitoina | |
| translative | *kidaksi | *kidoiksi | |
| instructive | *kidan | *kidoin | |
| comitative | *kitanëk | *kitoinëk | |
| abessive | *kidatta | *kidoitta | |
Descendants edit
- Estonian: kida
- Finnish: kita
- Karelian: (Northern) kita, (Southern) kida
- ⇒ Livonian: kidūd pl
- → Latvian: ķidas
- Livvi: kida
- Ludian: kida
- Veps: kida
Further reading edit
- “kida”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Entry #251 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.