Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/nahka
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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
Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *naskiz, *naskaz, whence also Old English næsc (“soft leather, deer skin”).
Noun edit
*nahka
Inflection edit
Inflection of *nahka
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *nahka | *nahkat | |
| accusative | *nahkan | *nahkat | |
| genitive | *nahkan | *nahkadën *nahkoidën | |
| partitive | *nahkada | *nahkoida | |
| inessive | *nahkassa *nahkahna |
*nahkoissa *nahkoihna | |
| elative | *nahkasta | *nahkoista | |
| illative | *nahkahën | *nahkoihën | |
| adessive | *nahkalla | *nahkoilla | |
| ablative | *nahkalta | *nahkoilta | |
| allative | *nahkalën *nahkalëk |
*nahkoilën *nahkoilëk | |
| essive | *nahkana | *nahkoina | |
| translative | *nahkaksi | *nahkoiksi | |
| instructive | *nahkan | *nahkoin | |
| comitative | *nahkanëk | *nahkoinëk | |
| abessive | *nahkatta | *nahkoitta | |
Descendants edit
- Estonian: nahk
- Finnish: nahka
- Ingrian: nahka
- Karelian: nahka
- Livonian: nǭ’gõ
- Livvi: nahku
- Ludian: nahk
- Veps: nahk
- Võro: nahk
- Votic: nahkõ
- → Proto-Samic: *nākkē
Further reading edit
- “nahk”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012