Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/minijä
Proto-Finnic
Etymology
From Proto-Uralic *mińä. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. elaborate on phonetic development; irregular to avoid homonymy with *minä "1sg pronoun"?
Noun
*minijä[1]
Inflection
Inflection of *minijä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *minijä | *minijät | |
| accusative | *minijän | *minijät | |
| genitive | *minijän | *minijäden *minijeiden | |
| partitive | *minijätä | *minijeitä | |
| inessive | *minijässä *minijähnä |
*minijeissä *minijeihnä | |
| elative | *minijästä | *minijeistä | |
| illative | *minijäsen | *minijeisen | |
| adessive | *minijällä | *minijeillä | |
| ablative | *minijältä | *minijeiltä | |
| allative | *minijälen *minijälek |
*minijeilen *minijeilek | |
| essive | *minijänä | *minijeinä | |
| translative | *minijäksi | *minijeiksi | |
| instructive | *minijän | *minijein | |
| comitative | *minijänek | *minijeinek | |
| abessive | *minijättä | *minijeittä | |
Descendants
- Estonian: minia
- Finnish: miniä
- Ingrian: minjä, minja, ⇒ minni
- Karelian:
- North Karelian: minʹnʹa
- South Karelian: minʹnʹa
- Livonian: mīņa
- Veps: mindʹ
- Võro: minnij
- Votic: minʹnʹõ, minʹdʹõ