Reconstruction:Proto-Samic/vākkënjë

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

Borrowed from Proto-Norse [Term?] (whence Old Norse vǫgn, Norwegian Bokmål vagn).

Noun

*vākkënjë[1]

  1. orca, killer whale (Orcinus orca)

Inflection

Even
Nominative *vāk̯k̯ënjë
Genitive *vāk̯k̯ën̯j̯ën
Singular Plural
Nominative *vāk̯k̯ënjë *vāk̯k̯ën̯j̯ëk
Accusative *vāk̯k̯ën̯j̯ëm *vāk̯k̯ën̯j̯ëjtē
Partitive *vāk̯k̯ënjëtē
Genitive *vāk̯k̯ën̯j̯ën *vāk̯k̯ën̯j̯ëj
Essive *vāk̯k̯ënjënē *vāk̯k̯ën̯j̯ëjnē
Inessive *vāk̯k̯ën̯j̯ësnē
Elative *vāk̯k̯ën̯j̯ëstē *vāk̯k̯ën̯j̯ëjstē
Illative *vāk̯k̯ënjës̯ën —
Comitative *vāk̯k̯ën̯j̯ëjnē
*vāk̯k̯ën̯j̯ëjnë 		—
Abessive *vāk̯k̯ën̯j̯ëptāk̯ëk —

Descendants

  • Western Samic:
    • Northern Sami: fáhkan
  • Eastern Samic:
    • Inari Sami: vaahan
    • Skolt Sami: vaakkânj
    • Kildin Sami: (obsolete or dialectal) воа̄кань (vååkan’)
  • → Finnish: (dialectal) vaakana, vaakina

References

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