Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/vabarna
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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
Unknown.
Noun edit
*vabarna
Inflection edit
Inflection of *vabarna
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *vabarna | *vabarnat | |
| accusative | *vabarnan | *vabarnat | |
| genitive | *vabarnan | *vabarnadën *vabarnoidën | |
| partitive | *vabarnata | *vabarnoita | |
| inessive | *vabarnassa *vabarnahna |
*vabarnoissa *vabarnoihna | |
| elative | *vabarnasta | *vabarnoista | |
| illative | *vabarnasën | *vabarnoisën | |
| adessive | *vabarnalla | *vabarnoilla | |
| ablative | *vabarnalta | *vabarnoilta | |
| allative | *vabarnalën *vabarnalëk |
*vabarnoilën *vabarnoilëk | |
| essive | *vabarnana | *vabarnoina | |
| translative | *vabarnaksi | *vabarnoiksi | |
| instructive | *vabarnan | *vabarnoin | |
| comitative | *vabarnanëk | *vabarnoinëk | |
| abessive | *vabarnatta | *vabarnoitta | |
Descendants edit
- Estonian: (dialectal) vabarn
- Karelian:
- Livvi: vavarjo, vavadno
- Ludian: babarm
- Veps: babarm
- Võro: vabarn, vavarn, vabõrn
- Votic: (Kattila, Pummala) võvvar, (Mati) vavvarna
Possibly from the root *vaba- ~ *vapa-, through influence by descendants of *joo-:
Uncertain (*vadarma, from secondary replacement of *b with *d by contamination):
- >? Finnish: vadelma
Further reading edit
- “vabarn”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012