Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/voodëk

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

Alternative reconstruction

• *voodëh

Etymology

Uncertain; theories include:

• from Proto-Finno-Ugric *aďe- (“to spread, to make bed”) +‎ *-ëk (compare Hungarian ágy).
• from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ade- (“to sleep”) +‎ *-ëk
• derivation from *voota +‎ *-ëh

Noun

*voodëk

1. bed (place to sleep)

Inflection

Inflection of *voodëk

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*voodëk	*vootëgët
accusative		*vootëgën	*vootëgët
genitive		*vootëgën	*vootëgëdën *vootëgidën
partitive		*vootëgëta	*vootëgita
inessive		*vootëgëssa *vootëgëhna	*vootëgissa *vootëgihna
elative		*vootëgësta	*vootëgista
illative		*vootëgësën	*vootëgisën
adessive		*vootëgëlla	*vootëgilla
ablative		*vootëgëlta	*vootëgilta
allative		*vootëgëlën *vootëgëlëk	*vootëgilën *vootëgilëk
essive		*vootëgëna	*vootëgina
translative		*vootëgëksi	*vootëgiksi
instructive		*vootëgën	*vootëgin
comitative		*vootëgënëk	*vootëginëk
abessive		*vootëgëtta	*vootëgitta

Descendants

• Finnish: vuode
• Ingrian: (obsolete) voovve
• Võro: voodõh, voodõq

From *vootëi ?:

• Estonian: voodi

From [Term?]:

• Livonian: (Salaca) uodiľd

References

• Aikio, Ante. 2016. "The Finnic 'secondary e-stems' and Proto-Uralic vocalism". Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja 95, pp. 25–66.
• Aikio, Ante. Uralic Etymological Dictionary (draft, 2020).

Further reading

• “voodi”, 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), “vuode”, 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
• Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*vootë⇒”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎^[2] (in Finnish)