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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/povi
Proto-Finnic
Etymology
From Proto-Finno-Ugric *poŋe.
Noun
*povi
- bosom, breast
Inflection
Inflection of *povi
singular | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *povi | *povet | |
accusative | *poven | *povet | |
genitive | *poven | *poveden *poviden | |
partitive | *poveda | *povida | |
inessive | *povessa | *povissa | |
elative | *povesta | *povista | |
illative | *povehen | *povihen | |
adessive | *povella | *povilla | |
ablative | *povelta | *povilta | |
allative | *povelek | *povilek | |
essive | *povena | *povina | |
translative | *poveksi | *poviksi | |
instructive | *poven | *povin | |
comitative | *povenek | *povinek | |
abessive | *povekta | *povikta |
Descendants
- Estonian: põu
- Finnish: povi
- Ingrian: povi
- Karelian: povi
- Livonian: pȯ’j
- Livvi: povi
- Ludian: povi
- Veps: povi
- Votic: põvvi
Further reading
- põu in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN
- Entry #794 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.