Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/sarni

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

From Proto-Finno-Permic *särńä, whence also Eastern Mari шертне (šertńe) and Western Mari шӓртньы (šärtńy). Possibly ultimately borrowed from a substrate language.

Noun

*sarni

1. common ash (Fraxinus excelsior)

Inflection

Inflection of *sarni

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*sarni	*sarnët
accusative		*sarnën	*sarnët
genitive		*sarnën	*sarnëdën *sarnidën
partitive		*sarnëda	*sarnida
inessive		*sarnëssa *sarnëhna	*sarnissa *sarnihna
elative		*sarnësta	*sarnista
illative		*sarnëhën	*sarnihën
adessive		*sarnëlla	*sarnilla
ablative		*sarnëlta	*sarnilta
allative		*sarnëlën *sarnëlëk	*sarnilën *sarnilëk
essive		*sarnëna	*sarnina
translative		*sarnëksi	*sarniksi
instructive		*sarnën	*sarnin
comitative		*sarnënëk	*sarninëk
abessive		*sarnëtta	*sarnitta

Descendants

From *sarni:

• Estonian: saar
• Finnish: saarni
• Ingrian: saarni
• Votic: (Jõgõperä, Mati, Pummala) saarni

From *sarnë-:

• Ingrian: saarne
• Võro: saarnõq, saarnõs, saarnõh
• Votic: (Mati) saarnõ

From *sarna:

• Livonian: sǟrna, (Salaca) sar

Further reading

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