Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/meccä
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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
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Probably borrowed from Proto-Baltic *medjas (whence Lithuanian mẽdžias (“forest”), Latvian mežs (“forest”) and Latgalian mežs (“forest”).[1][2] The term was apparently borrowed during the time of the split of South Estonian and Livonian from the rest of Finnic, as the former group borrowed it with back vowel harmony, whereas the latter group has front vowel harmony.
Alternatively from Proto-Finno-Ugric *mećä, *meććä (“edge, periphery”), compare Hungarian messze (“far”).
Noun edit
*meccä[3]
Inflection edit
Inflection of *meccä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *meccä | *mec'ät | |
| accusative | *mec'än | *mec'ät | |
| genitive | *mec'än | *meccäden *mecceiden | |
| partitive | *meccädä | *mecceidä | |
| inessive | *mec'ässä *mec'ähnä |
*mec'eissä *mec'eihnä | |
| elative | *mec'ästä | *mec'eistä | |
| illative | *meccähen | *mecceihen | |
| adessive | *mec'ällä | *mec'eillä | |
| ablative | *mec'ältä | *mec'eiltä | |
| allative | *meccälen *meccälek |
*mecceilen *mecceilek | |
| essive | *meccänä | *mecceinä | |
| translative | *mec'äksi | *mec'eiksi | |
| instructive | *mec'än | *mec'ein | |
| comitative | *meccänek | *mecceinek | |
| abessive | *mec'ättä | *mec'eittä | |
Descendants edit
- Estonian: mets
- Finnish: metsä
- Ingrian: metsä
- Karelian:
- Livvi: meččy
- Ludian: mečč
- Veps: mec
- Votic: mettse
- → Proto-Samic: *meaccē (see there for further descendants)
References edit
- ^ Illich-Svitych, Vladislav M. (1963) Именная акцентуация в балтийском и славянском: Судьба акцентуационных парадигм [Nominal Accentuation in Baltic and Slavic: The Fate of Accentuation Paradigms][1] (in Russian), Soviet Union, Moscow: Publishing house of the USSR Academy of Sciences, page 46: “[footnote] 37”
- ^ Illich-Svitych, Vladislav M. (1979) Nominal Accentuation in Baltic and Slavic: The Fate of Accentuation Paradigms, United States of America: The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England, page 157: “37.”
- ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*mEccÄ”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto[2] (in Finnish)
Further reading edit
- “mets”, 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), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words][3] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN