Reconstruction:Proto-Samic/kuolpën

This Proto-Samic 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-Samic

Etymology

From Pre-Samic *kalpin, borrowed from some Indo-European language (compare dialectal German Alben (“chalky sand under the top soil”), Old Norse alfr (“gravel”), dialectal Swedish alvar (“useless, barren, treeless, open field, bare mountain field, level heath on a shore”).

Noun

*kuolpën[1]

  1. heath, heathland

Inflection

Even
Nominative *kuol̯p̯ën
Genitive *kuol̯p̯ënn
Singular Plural
Nominative *kuol̯p̯ën *kuol̯p̯ënk
Accusative *kuol̯p̯ënm *kuol̯p̯ënjtē
Partitive *kuol̯p̯ëntē
Genitive *kuol̯p̯ënn *kuol̯p̯ënj
Essive *kuol̯p̯ënnē *kuol̯p̯ënjnē
Inessive *kuol̯p̯ënsnē
Elative *kuol̯p̯ënstē *kuol̯p̯ënjstē
Illative *kuol̯p̯ën̯s̯ën —
Comitative *kuol̯p̯ënjnē
*kuol̯p̯ënjnë 		—
Abessive *kuol̯p̯ënptāk̯ëk —

Descendants

  • Western Samic:
    • Southern Sami: goelpene
    • Ume Sami: gualban
    • Pite Sami: guolban
    • Northern Sami: guolbba
  • Eastern Samic:
    • Inari Sami: kuolbâ
    • Skolt Sami: kuõlbân
    • Kildin Sami: [script needed] (kūлʙ)
  • → Finnish: kuolpuna

Further reading

  • Eino Koponen, Klaas Ruppel, Kirsti Aapala, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

References

  1. ^ Aikio, Ante. 2009. The Saami loanwords in Finnish and Karelian. PhD thesis. University of Oulu.
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