Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/viimäinen

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

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Alternative forms

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  • *viimeinen

Etymology

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*viimä- +‎ *-inen

Adjective

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*viimäinen

  1. last, final

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Estonian: viimane
  • Finnish: (dialectal) viimäne, viimänen
  • Ingrian: viimäin
  • Karelian: viimaine
  • Livonian: (Salaca) vīmi
  • Võro: viimäne

From *viimeinen:

Further reading

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  • viimane”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Entry #1151 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “viime”, 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