Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/sepä

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-Uralic *śepä (“neck”).

Noun

*sepä

1. the front part of a sleigh
2. neck ?

   Synonym: *kakla

Inflection

Inflection of *sepä

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*sepä	*sebät
accusative		*sebän	*sebät
genitive		*sebän	*sepäden *sepeiden
partitive		*sepädä	*sepeidä
inessive		*sebässä *sebähnä	*sebeissä *sebeihnä
elative		*sebästä	*sebeistä
illative		*sepähen	*sepeihen
adessive		*sebällä	*sebeillä
ablative		*sebältä	*sebeiltä
allative		*sepälen *sepälek	*sepeilen *sepeilek
essive		*sepänä	*sepeinä
translative		*sebäksi	*sebeiksi
instructive		*sebän	*sebein
comitative		*sepänek	*sepeinek
abessive		*sebättä	*sebeittä

Coordinate terms

• *reki (“sleigh”)

Descendants

• Estonian: seba (dialectal)
• Finnish: sepä
• Karelian: sepä, šebä
• Livvi: sebä
• Ludian: šebä
• Veps: seba, sebä

Further reading

• Entry #955 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.