Reconstruction:Proto-Samic/kājsē

This Proto-Samic 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-Samic

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Norse *ᚷᚨᛁᛉᚨᛉ (*gaiʀaʀ), from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (spear).[1]

Noun

*kājsē[2]

  1. high and steep mountain

Inflection

Even
Nominative *kājsē
Genitive *kāj̯s̯ēn
Singular Plural
Nominative *kājsē *kāj̯s̯ēk
Accusative *kāj̯s̯ēm *kāj̯s̯ijtē
Partitive *kājsētē
Genitive *kāj̯s̯ēn *kāj̯s̯ij
Essive *kājsēnē *kāj̯s̯ijnē
Inessive *kāj̯s̯ēsnē
Elative *kāj̯s̯ēstē *kāj̯s̯ijstē
Illative *kājsās̯ën
Comitative *kāj̯s̯ijnē
*kāj̯s̯ijnë
Abessive *kāj̯s̯ēptāk̯ëk

Descendants

From *kājsē:

  • Western Samic:
    • Southern Sami: gaejsie
    • Pite Sami: gájjse
    • Lule Sami: gájsse
    • Northern Sami: gáisi

From *kājsā:

  • Western Samic:
  • Eastern Samic:
    • Inari Sami:
    • Skolt Sami:

References

  1. ^ Piha, Minerva. 2019. “Combining Proto-Scandinavian Loanword Strata in South Saami With the Early Iron Age Archaeological Material of Jämtland and Dalarna, Sweden”. Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 2018 (64):118–233.
  2. ^ Aikio, Ante. 2009. The Saami loanwords in Finnish and Karelian. PhD thesis. University of Oulu.