Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/leppä

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

Possibly from Baltic, compare Proto-Balto-Slavic *léiˀpāˀ. Alternatively, both words may be of common substrate origin.

Noun

*leppä^[1]

alder (tree)
blood

Inflection

Inflection of *leppä

	singular	plural
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
nominative	*leppä	*lep'ät
accusative	*lep'än	*lep'ät
genitive	*lep'än	leppäden leppeiden
partitive	*leppädä	*leppeidä
inessive	lep'ässä lep'ähnä	lep'eissä lep'eihnä
elative	*lep'ästä	*lep'eistä
illative	*leppähen	*leppeihen
adessive	*lep'ällä	*lep'eillä
ablative	*lep'ältä	*lep'eiltä
allative	leppälen leppälek	leppeilen leppeilek
essive	*leppänä	*leppeinä
translative	*lep'äksi	*lep'eiksi
instructive	*lep'än	*lep'ein
comitative	*leppänek	*leppeinek
abessive	*lep'ättä	*lep'eittä

Descendants

Estonian: lepp
Finnish: leppä
Ingrian: leppä
Karelian:
- North Karelian: leppä
- South Karelian: leppä
Livonian: liepā
Livvi: leppy
Ludian: lepp
Veps: lep
Võro: lepp
Votic: leppe
→ Skolt Sami: leäʹpp
→ Kildin Sami: ле̄һпь (liehp’)
→ Ter Sami: [script needed] (liehpe)
→? Proto-Mordvinic: *lepə (from earlier *lippä)
- Erzya: лепе (lepe)
- Moksha: лепе (lepe)

References

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

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

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

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