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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/inhiminen
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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
Possibly from Proto-Finno-Permic *inše, whence also Erzya инже (inže, “guest”) and Moksha [script needed] (inži, “guest”), with + *-ma (as a diminutive?) + *-inën.
Inflection
Inflection of *inhiminen
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *inhiminen | *inhimicet | |
| accusative | *inhimicen | *inhimicet | |
| genitive | *inhimicen | *inhimicten *inhimiciden | |
| partitive | *inhimictä | *inhimicidä | |
| inessive | *inhimicessä *inhimicehnä |
*inhimicissä *inhimicihnä | |
| elative | *inhimicestä | *inhimicistä | |
| illative | *inhimicehen | *inhimicihen | |
| adessive | *inhimicellä | *inhimicillä | |
| ablative | *inhimiceltä | *inhimiciltä | |
| allative | *inhimicelen *inhimicelek |
*inhimicilen *inhimicilek | |
| essive | *inhiminnä | *inhimicinä | |
| translative | *inhimiceksi | *inhimiciksi | |
| instructive | *inhimicen | *inhimicin | |
| comitative | *inhiminnek | *inhimicinek | |
| abessive | *inhimicettä | *inhimicittä | |
Descendants
- Estonian: inimene
- Finnish: ihminen, (obsolete) inhiminen, (dialectal) immeinen, iniminen, (archaic) inehmo
- Ingrian: ihmiin, ihmihiin, inmiin, inmihiin
- Karelian:
- North Karelian: imehnini
- South Karelian: inehmine
- Livonian: (Vidzeme) imi
- Livvi: inehmine
- Ludian: inahmoi
- Veps: inehmoi
- Võro: inemine
- Votic: inimin
References
- Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*inhi-minen”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto (in Finnish)
Further reading
- “inimene”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Entry #1231 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “ihminen”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
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