Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/sepä
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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
From Proto-Uralic *śepä (“neck”).
Noun edit
*sepä
Inflection edit
Inflection of *sepä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *sepä | *sebät | |
| accusative | *sebän | *sebät | |
| genitive | *sebän | *sepäden *sepeiden | |
| partitive | *sepädä | *sepeidä | |
| inessive | *sebässä *sebähnä |
*sebeissä *sebeihnä | |
| elative | *sebästä | *sebeistä | |
| illative | *sepähen | *sepeihen | |
| adessive | *sebällä | *sebeillä | |
| ablative | *sebältä | *sebeiltä | |
| allative | *sepälen *sepälek |
*sepeilen *sepeilek | |
| essive | *sepänä | *sepeinä | |
| translative | *sebäksi | *sebeiksi | |
| instructive | *sebän | *sebein | |
| comitative | *sepänek | *sepeinek | |
| abessive | *sebättä | *sebeittä | |
Coordinate terms edit
- *reki (“sleigh”)
Descendants edit
- Estonian: seba (dialectal)
- Finnish: sepä
- Karelian: sepä, šebä
- Livvi: sebä
- Ludian: šebä
- Veps: seba, sebä
Further reading edit
- Entry #955 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.