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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/cinä
 | 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
From Proto-Uralic *tinä. The -u in oblique forms has been compared with Sami *-ō as seen in the second-person dual pronoun *tonōj.
Pronoun
*cinä
- you (singular)
Inflection
Inflection of *cinä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *cinä | — | |
| accusative | *cinun | — | |
| genitive | *cinun | — | |
| partitive | *cinuda | — | |
| inessive | *cinussa *cinuhna | — | |
| elative | *cinusta | — | |
| illative | *cinuhen | — | |
| adessive | *cinulla | — | |
| ablative | *cinulta | — | |
| allative | *cinulen *cinulek | — | |
| essive | *cinuna | — | |
| translative | *cinuksi | — | |
| instructive | *cinun | — | |
| comitative | *cinunek | — | |
| abessive | *cinutta | — | |
Descendants
- Estonian: sina, sa
- Finnish: sinä, (colloquial/dialectal) sä, sää, siä, sie
- Kven: sie
- Ingrian: siä
- Karelian:
- North Karelian: šie
- South Karelian: šie
- Livonian: sinā, sa
- Livvi: sinä
- Ludian: sina
- Veps: sinä
- Võro: sa, saq
- Votic: siä
References
- sina 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), [note: linked online version also includes some other etymological sources], Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN