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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/minä
Proto-Finnic
Etymology
From Proto-Uralic *minä. The -u in oblique forms has been compared with Sami *-ō as seen in the first-person dual pronoun *monōj.
Pronoun
*minä
- I, me
Inflection
Inflection of *minä
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
singular | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *minä | — | |
accusative | *minun | — | |
genitive | *minun | — | |
partitive | *minuda | — | |
inessive | *minussa *minuhna | — | |
elative | *minusta | — | |
illative | *minuhen | — | |
adessive | *minulla | — | |
ablative | *minulta | — | |
allative | *minulen *minulek | — | |
essive | *minuna | — | |
translative | *minuksi | — | |
instructive | *minun | — | |
comitative | *minunek | — | |
abessive | *minutta | — |
Descendants
- Estonian: mina, ma
- Finnish: minä, (colloquial/dialectal) mä, mää, miä, mie
- Kven: mie
- Ingrian: miä
- Karelian:
- North Karelian: mie
- South Karelian: mie
- Livonian: minā, ma
- Livvi: minä
- Ludian: minä
- Veps: minä
- Võro: ma, maq
- Votic: miä
References
- mina 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