Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/tappo

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

Possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (whence Swedish täppa (“enclosure, small garden or field”)).

Noun

*tappo

1. garden, hop garden
2. hop (Humulus lupulus)

   Synonym: *humala

Inflection

Inflection of *tappo

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*tappo	*tap'ot
accusative		*tap'on	*tap'ot
genitive		*tap'on	*tappodën *tappoidën
partitive		*tappoda	*tappoida
inessive		*tap'ossa *tap'ohna	*tap'oissa *tap'oihna
elative		*tap'osta	*tap'oista
illative		*tappohën	*tappoihën
adessive		*tap'olla	*tap'oilla
ablative		*tap'olta	*tap'oilta
allative		*tappolën *tappolëk	*tappoilën *tappoilëk
essive		*tappona	*tappoina
translative		*tap'oksi	*tap'oiksi
instructive		*tap'on	*tap'oin
comitative		*tapponëk	*tappoinëk
abessive		*tap'otta	*tap'oitta

Descendants

• Estonian: tapp
• Finnish: (dialectal) tappo
• ⇒? Livvi: tapos
• Võro: tapp
• Votic: tappo, tappu

Further reading

• “tapp”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
• Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “tappo”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN