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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/soota
Proto-Finnic
Etymology
Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *stōdą.
Noun
*soota
- (Northern Finnic) herd of horses
- (Northern Finnic) heat, oestrus (in horses)
Inflection
Inflection of *soota
singular | plural | ||
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nominative | *soota | *soodat | |
accusative | *soodan | *soodat | |
genitive | *soodan | *sootaden *sooteiden | |
partitive | *sootada | *sooteida | |
inessive | *soodassa | *soodeissa | |
elative | *soodasta | *soodeista | |
illative | *sootahen | *sooteihen | |
adessive | *soodalla | *soodeilla | |
ablative | *soodalta | *soodeilta | |
allative | *sootalen | *sooteilen | |
essive | *sootana | *sooteina | |
translative | *soodaksi | *soodeiksi | |
instructive | *soodan | *soodein | |
comitative | *sootanek | *sooteinek | |
abessive | *soodakta | *soodeikta |
Descendants
- Finnish:(dialectal) suota
- → Karelian: suovillah, suovilleh
Further reading
- Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “suota”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN