Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/sambas

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

Probably borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *stámbʰHas (whence Sanskrit स्तम्भ (stambha, “pillar”)).

Noun

*sambas

1. pillar, column

Inflection

Inflection of *sambas

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*sambas	*sampahët
accusative		*sampahën	*sampahët
genitive		*sampahën	*sambastën *sampahidën
partitive		*sambasta	*sampahita
inessive		*sampahëssa *sampahëhna	*sampahissa *sampahihna
elative		*sampahësta	*sampahista
illative		*sampahësën	*sampahisën
adessive		*sampahëlla	*sampahilla
ablative		*sampahëlta	*sampahilta
allative		*sampahëlën *sampahëlëk	*sampahilën *sampahilëk
essive		*sambassa	*sampahina
translative		*sampahëksi	*sampahiksi
instructive		*sampahën	*sampahin
comitative		*sambassëk	*sampahinëk
abessive		*sampahëtta	*sampahitta

Descendants

• Estonian: sammas
• Finnish: sammas
  • ⇒ Finnish: sampo
• Võro: sammas
• Votic: sammõz

Further reading

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