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 edit

Alternative forms edit

  • *viimeinen

Etymology edit

From *viimä (earlier *vije-mä, derived from Proto-Finno-Ugric *wiŋe (end, the end of something)) +‎ *-inën.

Adjective edit

*viimäinen

  1. last, final

Inflection edit

Descendants edit

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

From *viimeinen:

Further reading edit

  • 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] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN