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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/ülkä

This Proto-Finnic 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-Finnic

Etymology

Cognate with Proto-Samic *ëlkē. Like *ürkä (Finnish yrkä), probably from Proto-Uralic *irkä, *ürkä (“man, son, boy”).

Noun

*ülkä[1]

  1. groom, bridegroom
    Synonym: *sulhainën

Inflection
Inflection of *ülkä
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
singular plural
nominative *ülkä *ülgät
accusative *ülgän *ülgät
genitive *ülgän *ülkäden
*ülkeiden
partitive *ülkädä *ülkeidä
inessive *ülgässä
*ülgähnä		 *ülgeissä
*ülgeihnä
elative *ülgästä *ülgeistä
illative *ülkähen *ülkeihen
adessive *ülgällä *ülgeillä
ablative *ülgältä *ülgeiltä
allative *ülkälen
*ülkälek		 *ülkeilen
*ülkeilek
essive *ülkänä *ülkeinä
translative *ülgäksi *ülgeiksi
instructive *ülgän *ülgein
comitative *ülkänek *ülkeinek
abessive *ülgättä *ülgeittä

Descendants
  • Estonian: (dialectal, obsolete) ülg
  • Finnish: (archaic) ylkä
  • Võro: ülä

References
  1. Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*ülkä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto‎ (in Finnish)

Further reading
  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “ylkä”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words]‎ (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
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