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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/tappo
Proto-Finnic
Etymology
Possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (whence Swedish täppa (“enclosure, small garden or field”)).
Noun
*tappo
- garden, hop garden
- hop (Humulus lupulus)
- Synonym: *humala
Inflection
Inflection of *tappo
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
singular | plural | ||
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nominative | *tappo | *tap'ot | |
accusative | *tap'on | *tap'ot | |
genitive | *tap'on | *tappoden *tappoiden | |
partitive | *tappoda | *tappoida | |
inessive | *tap'ossa *tap'ohna | *tap'oissa *tap'oihna | |
elative | *tap'osta | *tap'oista | |
illative | *tappohen | *tappoihen | |
adessive | *tap'olla | *tap'oilla | |
ablative | *tap'olta | *tap'oilta | |
allative | *tappolen *tappolek | *tappoilen *tappoilek | |
essive | *tappona | *tappoina | |
translative | *tap'oksi | *tap'oiksi | |
instructive | *tap'on | *tap'oin | |
comitative | *tapponek | *tappoinek | |
abessive | *tap'otta | *tap'oitta |
Descendants
- Estonian: tapp
- Finnish: (dialectal) tappo
- ⇒? Livvi: tapos
- Võro: tapp
- Votic: tappo, tappu
Further reading
- tapp in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN
- Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “tappo”, 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