Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/tarkka
Proto-Finnic
editEtymology
editOriginal sense "sharp". Has the variant *tarkëda, *tärkedä. If related to Erzya тарка (tarka, “place”) and Erzya тарго (targo, “week”), possibly from Proto-Finno-Permic *tarka, but this is uncertain due to the semantic gap. Has also been compared with Proto-Germanic *starkuz, but the semantic and phonetic differences seem insuperable.
Adjective
edit*tarkka
Inflection
editInflection of *tarkka
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
singular | plural | ||
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nominative | *tarkka | *tark'at | |
accusative | *tark'an | *tark'at | |
genitive | *tark'an | *tarkkadën *tarkkoidën | |
partitive | *tarkkada | *tarkkoida | |
inessive | *tark'assa *tark'ahna |
*tark'oissa *tark'oihna | |
elative | *tark'asta | *tark'oista | |
illative | *tarkkahën | *tarkkoihën | |
adessive | *tark'alla | *tark'oilla | |
ablative | *tark'alta | *tark'oilta | |
allative | *tarkkalën *tarkkalëk |
*tarkkoilën *tarkkoilëk | |
essive | *tarkkana | *tarkkoina | |
translative | *tark'aksi | *tark'oiksi | |
instructive | *tark'an | *tark'oin | |
comitative | *tarkkanëk | *tarkkoinëk | |
abessive | *tark'atta | *tark'oitta |
Descendants
edit- Estonian: tark
- Finnish: tarkka
- Ingrian: tarkka
- Karelian: tarkka
- Livvi: tarku
- Ludian: tark
- Veps: tark
- Võro: tark
- Votic: tarkkõ
Further reading
edit- “tark”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012