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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/viimäinen

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

Alternative forms

  • *viimeinen

Etymology

From *viimä (earlier *vije-mä, derived from Proto-Finno-Ugric *wiŋe (end, the end of something)) + *-inen.

Adjective

*viimäinen

  1. last, final

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: viimane
  • Finnish: (dialectal) viimäne, viimänen
  • Ingrian: viimäin
  • Karelian: viimaine
  • Livonian: (Salaca) vīmi
  • Võro: viimäne

From *viimeinen:

Further reading

  • viimane in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN
  • Entry #1151 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.
  • Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), viime”, 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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