Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/vapa
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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
editEtymology
editUnknown.
Noun
edit*vapa
- pole or rack for drying fishnets
- fishing rod
- Synonym: *onki
Inflection
editInflection of *vapa
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *vapa | *vabat | |
| accusative | *vaban | *vabat | |
| genitive | *vaban | *vapadën *vapoidën | |
| partitive | *vapada | *vapoida | |
| inessive | *vabassa *vabahna |
*vaboissa *vaboihna | |
| elative | *vabasta | *vaboista | |
| illative | *vapahën | *vapoihën | |
| adessive | *vaballa | *vaboilla | |
| ablative | *vabalta | *vaboilta | |
| allative | *vapalën *vapalëk |
*vapoilën *vapoilëk | |
| essive | *vapana | *vapoina | |
| translative | *vabaksi | *vaboiksi | |
| instructive | *vaban | *vaboin | |
| comitative | *vapanëk | *vapoinëk | |
| abessive | *vabatta | *vaboitta | |
Descendants
edit- ⇒ Estonian: vabe, (dialectal) vaba
- → Votic: vapa
- Finnish: vapa
- Ingrian: vapa
- Karelian: vapa (Northern), vaba (Southern)
- Livonian: vabā
- → Latvian: vaba
- Võro: vaba
Further reading
edit- “vabe”, 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), “vapa”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words][1] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN