Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/emä

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

From Proto-Uralic *emä.

Noun

*emä[1]

  1. mother
    Synonym: *äitei

Inflection

Inflection of *emä
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
singular plural
nominative *emä *emät
accusative *emän *emät
genitive *emän *emäden
*emeiden
partitive *emädä *emeidä
inessive *emässä
*emähnä 		*emeissä
*emeihnä
elative *emästä *emeistä
illative *emähen *emeihen
adessive *emällä *emeillä
ablative *emältä *emeiltä
allative *emälen
*emälek 		*emeilen
*emeilek
essive *emänä *emeinä
translative *emäksi *emeiksi
instructive *emän *emein
comitative *emänek *emeinek
abessive *emättä *emeittä

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Estonian: ema
  • Finnish: emä
  • Ingrian: emä
  • Karelian:
    • North Karelian: emä
    • South Karelian: emä
  • Livonian: jemā
  • Livvi: emä
  • Ludian: emä
  • Veps: ema
  • Võro: imä
  • Votic: emä

References

  1. ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*emä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎[1] (in Finnish)

Further reading

  • “ema”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
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