Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/terä
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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 edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finno-Permic *terä (“edge”). The word has been suggested to go back to Proto-Finno-Ugric with Hungarian tőr as a cognate, but an Iranian origin for the Hungarian word has also been suggested.
Noun edit
*terä
Inflection edit
Inflection of *terä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *terä | *terät | |
| accusative | *terän | *terät | |
| genitive | *terän | *teräden *tereiden | |
| partitive | *terädä | *tereidä | |
| inessive | *terässä *terähnä |
*tereissä *tereihnä | |
| elative | *terästä | *tereistä | |
| illative | *terähen | *tereihen | |
| adessive | *terällä | *tereillä | |
| ablative | *terältä | *tereiltä | |
| allative | *terälen *terälek |
*tereilen *tereilek | |
| essive | *teränä | *tereinä | |
| translative | *teräksi | *tereiksi | |
| instructive | *terän | *terein | |
| comitative | *teränek | *tereinek | |
| abessive | *terättä | *tereittä | |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Estonian: tera
- Finnish: terä
- Ingrian: terä
- Karelian: terä
- Livonian: tierā
- Livvi: terä
- Ludian: t'erä
- Veps: tera
- Võro: terä
- Votic: terä
Further reading edit
- “tera”, 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), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words][1] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN