Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/taikina

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

Borrowed from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (compare *daigaz (“dough”)), whence Old High German teiginna (“dough”) and dialectal Swedish daigning.

Noun

*taikina

1. dough

   Synonym: *tahtas

Inflection

Inflection of *taikina

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*taikina	*taikinat
accusative		*taikinan	*taikinat
genitive		*taikinan	*taikinadën *taikinoidën
partitive		*taikinata	*taikinoita
inessive		*taikinassa *taikinahna	*taikinoissa *taikinoihna
elative		*taikinasta	*taikinoista
illative		*taikinasën	*taikinoisën
adessive		*taikinalla	*taikinoilla
ablative		*taikinalta	*taikinoilta
allative		*taikinalën *taikinalëk	*taikinoilën *taikinoilëk
essive		*taikinana	*taikinoina
translative		*taikinaksi	*taikinoiksi
instructive		*taikinan	*taikinoin
comitative		*taikinanëk	*taikinoinëk
abessive		*taikinatta	*taikinoitta

Descendants

• Estonian: taigen
• Finnish: taikina
• Ingrian: taikina
• Karelian:
  • North Karelian: taikina
  • South Karelian: taigina
• Livonian: ⇒ tāigandõks
• Livvi: taigin
• Ludian: taigin
• Veps: taigin
• >? Võro: taignõ
• Votic: taitšinõ

Further reading

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