Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/looko

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 [Term?] (compare dialectal Swedish slog (“haymaking”) and Icelandic slægja (“newly-harvested grass”)).

Noun

*looko

1. windrow (cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field)

Inflection

Inflection of *looko

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*looko	*loogot
accusative		*loogon	*loogot
genitive		*loogon	*lookodën *lookoidën
partitive		*lookoda	*lookoida
inessive		*loogossa *loogohna	*loogoissa *loogoihna
elative		*loogosta	*loogoista
illative		*lookohën	*lookoihën
adessive		*loogolla	*loogoilla
ablative		*loogolta	*loogoilta
allative		*lookolën *lookolëk	*lookoilën *lookoilëk
essive		*lookona	*lookoina
translative		*loogoksi	*loogoiksi
instructive		*loogon	*loogoin
comitative		*lookonëk	*lookoinëk
abessive		*loogotta	*loogoitta

Descendants

• Estonian: loog
• Finnish: luoko
  • → Northern Sami: luohku
• Karelian:
  • North Karelian: luoko
  • South Karelian: luogo
• Livvi: luogo
• Ludian: luog
• Veps: logo
• Votic: looko, (rare) looku

Further reading

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