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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/meri
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This Proto-Finnic entry contains reconstructed words 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-Finnic
Etymology
Borrowing from an Indo-European language, possibly Baltic. The vowel *e is irregular, but a similar substitution is attested in certain other loanwords of Baltic origin, e.g. *reki. A closer resemblance is common West Germanic *meri (from Proto-Germanic *mari), but no other specifically West Germanic early loanwords in the Finnic languages are known. In any case, the word derives ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea”) in some way or another.
Inflection
Inflection of *meri
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *meri | *meret | |
| accusative | *meren | *meret | |
| genitive | *meren | *merden *meriden | |
| partitive | *mertä | *meridä | |
| inessive | *meressä | *merissä | |
| elative | *merestä | *meristä | |
| illative | *merehen | *merihen | |
| adessive | *merellä | *merillä | |
| ablative | *mereltä | *meriltä | |
| allative | *merelek | *merilek | |
| essive | *mernä | *merinä | |
| translative | *mereksi | *meriksi | |
| instructive | *meren | *merin | |
| comitative | *mernek | *merinek | |
| abessive | *merektä | *meriktä | |
Descendants
References
- meri in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN
- Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000) Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
- Sköld, Tryggve. 1996. "Finn. meri 'Meer'". In: Lars-Gunnar Larsson (ed.), Lapponica et Uralica: 100 Jahre finnisch-ugrischer Unterricht an der Universität Uppsala. Vorträge am Jubiläumssymposium 20-23 April 1994 (Studia Uralica Uppsalaensia 26): pp. 311–316.
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