Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/sampi
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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
Possibly from Proto-Finno-Ugric *śampe (whence Southern Mansi шупу (šupu)). Alternatively, possibly derived from *sambas, or borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (whence Lithuanian stambus (“large”)).
Noun edit
*sampi
Inflection edit
Inflection of *sampi
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *sampi | *sambët | |
| accusative | *sambën | *sambët | |
| genitive | *sambën | *sampëdën *sampidën | |
| partitive | *sampëda | *sampida | |
| inessive | *sambëssa *sambëhna |
*sambissa *sambihna | |
| elative | *sambësta | *sambista | |
| illative | *sampëhën | *sampihën | |
| adessive | *sambëlla | *sambilla | |
| ablative | *sambëlta | *sambilta | |
| allative | *sampëlën *sampëlëk |
*sampilën *sampilëk | |
| essive | *sampëna | *sampina | |
| translative | *sambëksi | *sambiksi | |
| instructive | *sambën | *sambin | |
| comitative | *sampënëk | *sampinëk | |
| abessive | *sambëtta | *sambitta | |
Descendants edit
- Finnish: sampi
From *sampa:
- Estonian: samb
Further reading edit
- “samb”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Entry #932 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.