Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/tutkain
Proto-Finnic
Etymology
Noun
*tutkain
- tip, end
- Synonym: *tutka
- (usually in the plural) thrum(s) (ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut)
Inflection
Inflection of *tutkain
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *tutkain | *tutkaimët | |
| accusative | *tutkaimën | *tutkaimët | |
| genitive | *tutkaimën | *tutkaindën *tutkaimidën | |
| partitive | *tutkainta | *tutkaimita | |
| inessive | *tutkaimëssa *tutkaimëhna |
*tutkaimissa *tutkaimihna | |
| elative | *tutkaimësta | *tutkaimista | |
| illative | *tutkaimësën | *tutkaimisën | |
| adessive | *tutkaimëlla | *tutkaimilla | |
| ablative | *tutkaimëlta | *tutkaimilta | |
| allative | *tutkaimëlën *tutkaimëlëk |
*tutkaimilën *tutkaimilëk | |
| essive | *tutkaimëna | *tutkaimina | |
| translative | *tutkaimëksi | *tutkaimiksi | |
| instructive | *tutkaimën | *tutkaimin | |
| comitative | *tutkaimënëk | *tutkaiminëk | |
| abessive | *tutkaimëtta | *tutkaimitta | |
Descendants
- Finnish: tutkain
- Ingrian: tutkamet pl
- Karelian:
- North Karelian: tutkamet pl
- South Karelian: tutkamet pl
- Livonian: tutkām
- Livvi: tutkaimet pl
- Ludian: tutkamed pl
- Veps: tutkmed pl
- Võro: tuka (< *tutkain ~ *tutkama)
- Votic: tutkõmõd pl (Mati)
Further reading
- “tutkas”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Erkki Itkonen, Ulla-Maija Kulonen, editors (1992–2000), “tutkain”, 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