Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/rat'as

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-Baltic [Term?] (whence Latvian rats, Lithuanian ratas), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hret-.

Noun

*rat'as

1. wheel

   Synonym: *pöörä

2. (in the plural) cart

Inflection

Inflection of *rat'as

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*rat'as	*rattahët
accusative		*rattahën	*rattahët
genitive		*rattahën	*rat'astën *rattahidën
partitive		*rat'asta	*rattahita
inessive		*rattahëssa *rattahëhna	*rattahissa *rattahihna
elative		*rattahësta	*rattahista
illative		*rattahësën	*rattahisën
adessive		*rattahëlla	*rattahilla
ablative		*rattahëlta	*rattahilta
allative		*rattahëlën *rattahëlëk	*rattahilën *rattahilëk
essive		*rat'assa	*rattahina
translative		*rattahëksi	*rattahiksi
instructive		*rattahën	*rattahin
comitative		*rat'assëk	*rattahinëk
abessive		*rattahëtta	*rattahitta

Descendants

• Estonian: ratas
• Finnish: ratas
  • → Inari Sami: räätis
  • → Northern Sami: ráhtis
• Ingrian: ratas
• Karelian: ratas
• Livonian: ratāz
• Livvi: ratas
• Ludian: rataz
• Võro: ratas
• Votic: rataz

Further reading

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