Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/vainijo
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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
Borrowed from Proto-Norse [script needed] (*hwainiō), from Proto-Germanic *hwainō (whence dialectal Swedish ven, hven (“swampy field”)).[1]
Noun edit
*vainijo[2]
Inflection edit
Inflection of *vainijo
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *vainijo | *vainijot | |
| accusative | *vainijon | *vainijot | |
| genitive | *vainijon | *vainijodën *vainijoidën | |
| partitive | *vainijota | *vainijoita | |
| inessive | *vainijossa *vainijohna |
*vainijoissa *vainijoihna | |
| elative | *vainijosta | *vainijoista | |
| illative | *vainijosën | *vainijoisën | |
| adessive | *vainijolla | *vainijoilla | |
| ablative | *vainijolta | *vainijoilta | |
| allative | *vainijolën *vainijolëk |
*vainijoilën *vainijoilëk | |
| essive | *vainijona | *vainijoina | |
| translative | *vainijoksi | *vainijoiksi | |
| instructive | *vainijon | *vainijoin | |
| comitative | *vainijonëk | *vainijoinëk | |
| abessive | *vainijotta | *vainijoitta | |
Descendants edit
- Estonian: vain, vainu, (dialectal) vainiu, vainija
- Finnish: vainio
- → Karelian:
- North Karelian: vainivo
- → Karelian:
References edit
Further reading edit
- “vain”, 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), “vainio”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words][2] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN