Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/sëstar

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

Unknown. Possibly related to Erzya [script needed] (šukštorov), [script needed] (čukštorov) and Moksha [script needed] (šukštoru). These cognates cannot be regularly traced back to a common protoform and may be borrowed from a substrate language.

Noun

*sëstar

1. currant (species of genus Ribes)

Inflection

Inflection of *sëstar

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*sëstar	*sëstarët
accusative		*sëstarën	*sëstarët
genitive		*sëstarën	*sëstardën *sëstaridën
partitive		*sëstarta	*sëstarita
inessive		*sëstarëssa *sëstarëhna	*sëstarissa *sëstarihna
elative		*sëstarësta	*sëstarista
illative		*sëstarësën	*sëstarisën
adessive		*sëstarëlla	*sëstarilla
ablative		*sëstarëlta	*sëstarilta
allative		*sëstarëlën *sëstarëlëk	*sëstarilën *sëstarilëk
essive		*sëstarna	*sëstarina
translative		*sëstarëksi	*sëstariksi
instructive		*sëstarën	*sëstarin
comitative		*sëstarnëk	*sëstarinëk
abessive		*sëstarëtta	*sëstaritta

Descendants

• Estonian: sõstar
• Finnish: siestar
• Ingrian: seestara
• Livonian: sõstār
• ⇒ Ludian: sestroi
• ⇒ Veps: sestrikaine
• Votic: sõssõr
• → Latvian: sustarenes, zusteri

Further reading

• “sõstar”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
• Entry #1209 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.