Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/-icci
Proto-Finnic
Etymology
Aikio and Ylikoski (2016) proposes that the prolative ending, which they reconstruct as *-iccek (the form attested in Finnish), is in fact a contraction of a Finno-Samic postposition *śüδik (with a cognate in Proto-Samic *čëδëk, and from the same stem as *śüdäme with a lative ending), through the development *-n śüδik (*-n is the genitive ending) > *-ńśüik > *-ńćik (> (Late) Proto-Finnic *-iccek).[1] Alternatively possibly from the oblique stem *-icce- of *-inën.
Suffix
*-icci
Descendants
- Estonian: -itsi, -tsi
- Finnish: -itse (< *-ic'ëk)
- Karelian:
- North Karelian: -ičči
- South Karelian: -ičči
- Livvi: -iči
- Veps: -iči
References
- ^ Aikio, Ante & Ylikoski, Jussi. The origin of the Finnic l-cases. Fenno-Ugrica Suecana Nova Series 15 (2016). pp. 59-158