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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/helmi
 | 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
Unknown. Possibly a substrate loan from the pre-Finnic languages of the Baltic.
Noun
*helmi
- pearl
- amber
- drop
Inflection
Inflection of *helmi
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *helmi | *helmet | |
| accusative | *helmen | *helmet | |
| genitive | *helmen | *helmeden *helmiden | |
| partitive | *helmedä | *helmidä | |
| inessive | *helmessä *helmehnä | *helmissä *helmihnä | |
| elative | *helmestä | *helmistä | |
| illative | *helmehen | *helmihen | |
| adessive | *helmellä | *helmillä | |
| ablative | *helmeltä | *helmiltä | |
| allative | *helmelen *helmelek | *helmilen *helmilek | |
| essive | *helmenä | *helminä | |
| translative | *helmeksi | *helmiksi | |
| instructive | *helmen | *helmin | |
| comitative | *helmenek | *helminek | |
| abessive | *helmettä | *helmittä | |
Synonyms
- (drop): *pisara
Descendants
- Estonian: helmes
- Finnish: helmi
- Ingrian: helmi
- Karelian: helmi
- Livonian: eļm, ēļmaz
- Livvi: helmi
- Ludian: hölmü
- Veps: hel'm
- Võro: helm'
- Votic: elmi
- → Northern Sami: helbmu
References
- helmes 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