Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/vacca

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

Unknown. Sometimes considered to be related to Northern Mansi [script needed] (waś). Parpola (2017) notes a meaning 'womb' in some descendants and proposes early borrowing from Proto-Indo-Iranian *watsás (“calf”), whence also *vasa (“calf”).[1] Holopainen (2019) rejects both of said etymologies.[2] Any connection to Proto-Mordvinic *vačə (“hunger”) is uncertain, and the similarity may be coincidental.

Noun

*vacca[3]

  1. stomach
    Synonyms: *maha, *mako

Inflection

Inflection of *vacca
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
singular plural
nominative *vacca *vac'at
accusative *vac'an *vac'at
genitive *vac'an *vaccadën
*vaccoidën
partitive *vaccada *vaccoida
inessive *vac'assa
*vac'ahna 		*vac'oissa
*vac'oihna
elative *vac'asta *vac'oista
illative *vaccahën *vaccoihën
adessive *vac'alla *vac'oilla
ablative *vac'alta *vac'oilta
allative *vaccalën
*vaccalëk 		*vaccoilën
*vaccoilëk
essive *vaccana *vaccoina
translative *vac'aksi *vac'oiksi
instructive *vac'an *vac'oin
comitative *vaccanëk *vaccoinëk
abessive *vac'atta *vac'oitta

Descendants

  • Estonian: vats
  • Finnish: vatsa, (dialectal) vatta
    • → Proto-Samic: *fāttē (see there for further descendants)
  • Ingrian: vatsa
  • Karelian:
  • Livonian: vatsā
  • Livvi: vačču
  • Ludian: vačč, vacc
  • Veps: vac
  • Votic: vattsõ

References

  1. ^ Parpola, Asko. 2017. "Finnic vatsa ~ Sanskrit vatsá- and the formation on Indo-Iranian and Uralic languages". Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja 96: 245–286.
  2. ^ Holopainen, Sampsa (2019) Indo-Iranian borrowings in Uralic: Critical overview of sound substitutions and distribution criterion‎[1], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN, pages 293–295
  3. ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*vacca”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎[2] (in Finnish)

Further reading

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