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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/muurahainen
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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
Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *mūrijǭ, *miurijǭ + *-inen.
Inflection
Inflection of *muurahainen
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *muurahainen | *muurahaicet | |
| accusative | *muurahaicen | *muurahaicet | |
| genitive | *muurahaicen | *muurahaicten *muurahaiciden | |
| partitive | *muurahaicta | *muurahaicida | |
| inessive | *muurahaicessa *muurahaicehna |
*muurahaicissa *muurahaicihna | |
| elative | *muurahaicesta | *muurahaicista | |
| illative | *muurahaicehen | *muurahaicihen | |
| adessive | *muurahaicella | *muurahaicilla | |
| ablative | *muurahaicelta | *muurahaicilta | |
| allative | *muurahaicelen *muurahaicelek |
*muurahaicilen *muurahaicilek | |
| essive | *muurahainna | *muurahaicina | |
| translative | *muurahaiceksi | *muurahaiciksi | |
| instructive | *muurahaicen | *muurahaicin | |
| comitative | *muurahainnek | *muurahaicinek | |
| abessive | *muurahaicetta | *muurahaicitta | |
Descendants
- ⇒ Estonian: (dialectal) murelane, mureline, murulane
- Finnish: muurahainen
- Ingrian: muurahain
- Karelian:
- North Karelian: muurahaini
- South Karelian: muurahaine
- Ludian: muurahaine
- Veps: murahaine
Further reading
- murelane in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN
- Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “muurahainen”, 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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