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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/lakci
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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 earlier *lakti (compare Proto-Samic *luoktë), borrowed from Baltic *lankti- (compare e.g. Lithuanian lanktis (“arc”), lanka (“valley, meadow”); Latvian līcis (“bay”)).
Inflection
Inflection of *lakci
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *lakci | *laktet | |
| accusative | *lakten | *laktet | |
| genitive | *lakten | *lakten *lakciden | |
| partitive | *lakta | *lakcida | |
| inessive | *laktessa *laktehna |
*lakcissa *lakcihna | |
| elative | *laktesta | *lakcista | |
| illative | *laktehen | *lakcihen | |
| adessive | *laktella | *lakcilla | |
| ablative | *laktelta | *lakcilta | |
| allative | *laktelen *laktelek |
*lakcilen *lakcilek | |
| essive | *laktena | *lakcina | |
| translative | *lakteksi | *lakciksi | |
| instructive | *lakten | *lakcin | |
| comitative | *laktenek | *lakcinek | |
| abessive | *laktetta | *lakcitta | |
Descendants
Most descendants have -ht- in the nominative form, but this must be analogical, due to the word being mostly used in inflected forms. Swedish lax, common in placenames in Finland, preserves the Old Finnish form.
- Estonian: laht
- Võro: laht'
- Finnish: lahti, (dialectal) laksi
- Ingrian: lahti, (obsolete) laksi
- Karelian: laksi
- Livvi: lahti
- Ludian: laht
- Veps: laht
- Votic: lahti
- → Russian: лахта (laxta) (dialectal, Northern Russia)
- → Russian: -лохта (-loxta) (in toponyms in Northern Russia, particularly in Belozersk area and along rivers Mezen and Pinega)
- → Russian: -лахта (-laxta) (in toponyms in Northern Russia)
References
- laht in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN
- Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000) 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
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