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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/varas
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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-Baltic *vāras (whence Lithuanian voras (“old”) and Old Prussian urs (“old”)).
Inflection
Inflection of *varas
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *varas | *varahet | |
| accusative | *varahen | *varahet | |
| genitive | *varahen | *varasten *varahiden | |
| partitive | *varasta | *varahita | |
| inessive | *varahessa *varahehna |
*varahissa *varahihna | |
| elative | *varahesta | *varahista | |
| illative | *varahesen | *varahisen | |
| adessive | *varahella | *varahilla | |
| ablative | *varahelta | *varahilta | |
| allative | *varahelen *varahelek |
*varahilen *varahilek | |
| essive | *varassa | *varahina | |
| translative | *varaheksi | *varahiksi | |
| instructive | *varahen | *varahin | |
| comitative | *varassek | *varahinek | |
| abessive | *varahetta | *varahitta | |
Descendants
Further reading
- vara in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN
- Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “varhainen”, 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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