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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/mendinkä(inen)
 | 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
Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *menþingō (later *minþingō) (whence Old Norse minning (“memory, recollection, remembrance”)). It's unclear if the suffix + *-inen was already added in Proto-Finnic.
Noun
*mendinkä(inen)
- spirit, ghost of a deceased person
Inflection
Inflection of *mendinkä(inen)
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *mendinkäinen | *mendinkäicet | |
| accusative | *mendinkäicen | *mendinkäicet | |
| genitive | *mendinkäicen | *mendingäicten *mendinkäiciden | |
| partitive | *mendingäictä | *mendinkäicidä | |
| inessive | *mendinkäicessä *mendinkäicehnä | *mendinkäicissä *mendinkäicihnä | |
| elative | *mendinkäicestä | *mendinkäicistä | |
| illative | *mendinkäicehen | *mendinkäicihen | |
| adessive | *mendinkäicellä | *mendinkäicillä | |
| ablative | *mendinkäiceltä | *mendinkäiciltä | |
| allative | *mendinkäicelen *mendinkäicelek | *mendinkäicilen *mendinkäicilek | |
| essive | *mendingäinnä | *mendinkäicinä | |
| translative | *mendinkäiceksi | *mendinkäiciksi | |
| instructive | *mendinkäicen | *mendinkäicin | |
| comitative | *mendingäinnek | *mendinkäicinek | |
| abessive | *mendinkäicettä | *mendinkäicittä | |
Descendants
- Finnish: menninkäinen
- ⇒? Karelian:
- North Karelian: mönni
- South Karelian: mönni
Further reading
- Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “menninkäinen”, in 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