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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/räntä

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 borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (whence Lithuanian drengti).

Noun

*räntä

  1. sleet (precipitation of rain–snow mixture)

Inflection
Inflection of *räntä
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
singular plural
nominative *räntä *rändät
accusative *rändän *rändät
genitive *rändän *räntäden
*ränteiden
partitive *räntädä *ränteidä
inessive *rändässä
*rändähnä		 *rändeissä
*rändeihnä
elative *rändästä *rändeistä
illative *räntähen *ränteihen
adessive *rändällä *rändeillä
ablative *rändältä *rändeiltä
allative *räntälen
*räntälek		 *ränteilen
*ränteilek
essive *räntänä *ränteinä
translative *rändäksi *rändeiksi
instructive *rändän *rändein
comitative *räntänek *ränteinek
abessive *rändättä *rändeittä

Descendants
  • Estonian: ränd
  • Finnish: räntä
  • Ingrian: ränne
  • Karelian:
    • North Karelian: räntä
    • South Karelian: rändä
  • Livvi: rändy
  • Ludian: ränd
  • Veps: ränd
  • Votic: ränte

Further reading
  • Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “räntä”, in 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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