Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/toro

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

Sound-symbolic.

Noun

*toro

1. tube, pipe

Inflection

Inflection of *toro

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*toro	*torot
accusative		*toron	*torot
genitive		*toron	*torodën *toroidën
partitive		*toroda	*toroida
inessive		*torossa *torohna	*toroissa *toroihna
elative		*torosta	*toroista
illative		*torohën	*toroihën
adessive		*torolla	*toroilla
ablative		*torolta	*toroilta
allative		*torolën *torolëk	*toroilën *toroilëk
essive		*torona	*toroina
translative		*toroksi	*toroiksi
instructive		*toron	*toroin
comitative		*toronëk	*toroinëk
abessive		*torotta	*toroitta

Descendants

• Estonian: toru
  • → Livonian: torī, torū
• Finnish: (dialectal) toro
• Võro: toro
• Votic: (Jõgõperä) toro

Further reading

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