Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/nahka
Proto-Finnic
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Proto-Germanic *naskiz, *naskaz, whence also Old English næsc (“soft leather, deer skin”).
Noun
edit*nahka
Inflection
editInflection 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 | ||
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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