Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/sasta

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.

Noun

*sasta

1. filth

Declension

Inflection of *sasta

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*sasta	*sastat
accusative		*sastan	*sastat
genitive		*sastan	*sastadën *sastoidën
partitive		*sastada	*sastoida
inessive		*sastassa *sastahna	*sastoissa *sastoihna
elative		*sastasta	*sastoista
illative		*sastahën	*sastoihën
adessive		*sastalla	*sastoilla
ablative		*sastalta	*sastoilta
allative		*sastalën *sastalëk	*sastoilën *sastoilëk
essive		*sastana	*sastoina
translative		*sastaksi	*sastoiksi
instructive		*sastan	*sastoin
comitative		*sastanëk	*sastoinëk
abessive		*sastatta	*sastoitta

Descendants

• Estonian: saast
• Finnish: saasta
• ⇒ Karelian:
  • North Karelian: suasse
• Livonian: sastā

Further reading

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