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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/leinä
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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
Possibly borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (whence Latvian kliens (“thin, withered”), Lithuanian klienas (“thin, skinny”)).
Inflection
Inflection of *leinä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *leinä | *leinät | |
| accusative | *leinän | *leinät | |
| genitive | *leinän | *leinäden *leineiden | |
| partitive | *leinädä | *leineidä | |
| inessive | *leinässä *leinähnä |
*leineissä *leineihnä | |
| elative | *leinästä | *leineistä | |
| illative | *leinähen | *leineihen | |
| adessive | *leinällä | *leineillä | |
| ablative | *leinältä | *leineiltä | |
| allative | *leinälen *leinälek |
*leineilen *leineilek | |
| essive | *leinänä | *leineinä | |
| translative | *leinäksi | *leineiksi | |
| instructive | *leinän | *leinein | |
| comitative | *leinänek | *leineinek | |
| abessive | *leinättä | *leineittä | |
Descendants
Further reading
- “lein”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
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