Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/vërkko
Proto-Finnic
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Proto-Germanic *werką, whence Old Swedish värke (“fish weir”), dialectal Swedish verke.
Noun
edit*vërkko
Inflection
editInflection of *vërkko
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 | *vërkko | *vërk'ot | |
accusative | *vërk'on | *vërk'ot | |
genitive | *vërk'on | *vërkkodën *vërkkoidën | |
partitive | *vërkkoda | *vërkkoida | |
inessive | *vërk'ossa *vërk'ohna |
*vërk'oissa *vërk'oihna | |
elative | *vërk'osta | *vërk'oista | |
illative | *vërkkohën | *vërkkoihën | |
adessive | *vërk'olla | *vërk'oilla | |
ablative | *vërk'olta | *vërk'oilta | |
allative | *vërkkolën *vërkkolëk |
*vërkkoilën *vërkkoilëk | |
essive | *vërkkona | *vërkkoina | |
translative | *vërk'oksi | *vërk'oiksi | |
instructive | *vërk'on | *vërk'oin | |
comitative | *vërkkonëk | *vërkkoinëk | |
abessive | *vërk'otta | *vërk'oitta |
Descendants
edit- Estonian: võrk
- Finnish: verkko
- Ingrian: verkko
- Karelian: verkko
- Livonian: võrgõ
- Livvi: verko
- Ludian: verk
- Veps: verk
- Võro: võrk
- Votic: võrkko
Further reading
edit- “võrk”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012