Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/laihvo

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-Germanic *laig(w)ǭ.

Noun

*laihvo

1. tax, payment
2. growing crop of cereal

Inflection

Inflection of *laihvo

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*laihvo	*laihvot
accusative		*laihvon	*laihvot
genitive		*laihvon	*laihvodën *laihvoidën
partitive		*laihvoda	*laihvoida
inessive		*laihvossa *laihvohna	*laihvoissa *laihvoihna
elative		*laihvosta	*laihvoista
illative		*laihvohën	*laihvoihën
adessive		*laihvolla	*laihvoilla
ablative		*laihvolta	*laihvoilta
allative		*laihvolën *laihvolëk	*laihvoilën *laihvoilëk
essive		*laihvona	*laihvoina
translative		*laihvoksi	*laihvoiksi
instructive		*laihvon	*laihvoin
comitative		*laihvonëk	*laihvoinëk
abessive		*laihvotta	*laihvoitta

Descendants

• Estonian: lõiv
• Finnish: laiho, (dialectal, obsolete) laihvo
• Karelian:
  • North Karelian: laiho
  • South Karelian: laiho
• Votic: laivo

Further reading

• “lõiv”, 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), “laiho”, 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