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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/reki

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

Perhaps borrowed from Baltic (compare Latvian ragavas, Latgalian rogovos, Lithuanian ragės), although the vowel in the first syllable is problematic.[1]

Noun

*reki

  1. sledge, sleigh

Inflection
Inflection of *reki
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
singular plural
nominative *reki *reget
accusative *regen *reget
genitive *regen *rekeden
*rekiden
partitive *rekedä *rekidä
inessive *regessä
*regehnä		 *regissä
*regihnä
elative *regestä *registä
illative *rekehen *rekihen
adessive *regellä *regillä
ablative *regeltä *regiltä
allative *rekelen
*rekelek		 *rekilen
*rekilek
essive *rekenä *rekinä
translative *regeksi *regiksi
instructive *regen *regin
comitative *rekenek *rekinek
abessive *regettä *regittä

Coordinate terms
  • *sepä (“front part of a sleigh”)

Descendants
  • Estonian: regi
  • Finnish: reki
    • → Inari Sami: riehâ
    • → Skolt Sami: riâkk
    • → Northern Sami: reahka
  • Ingrian: reki
  • Karelian: reki, regi
  • Livonian: re’ggõz
  • Livvi: regi
  • Ludian: regi
  • Veps: regi
  • Võro: regi
  • Votic: retši

References
  1. Junttila, Santeri. The prehistoric context of the oldest contacts between Baltic and Finnic languages. SUST 266 (2012)
  • “regi”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
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