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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/mälvi
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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-Ugric *mälke, with irregular change of *-lk- > *-lv-.
Inflection
Inflection of *mälvi
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *mälvi | *mälvet | |
| accusative | *mälven | *mälvet | |
| genitive | *mälven | *mälveden *mälviden | |
| partitive | *mälvedä | *mälvidä | |
| inessive | *mälvessä *mälvehnä |
*mälvissä *mälvihnä | |
| elative | *mälvestä | *mälvistä | |
| illative | *mälvehen | *mälvihen | |
| adessive | *mälvellä | *mälvillä | |
| ablative | *mälveltä | *mälviltä | |
| allative | *mälvelen *mälvelek |
*mälvilen *mälvilek | |
| essive | *mälvenä | *mälvinä | |
| translative | *mälveksi | *mälviksi | |
| instructive | *mälven | *mälvin | |
| comitative | *mälvenek | *mälvinek | |
| abessive | *mälvettä | *mälvittä | |
Descendants
- Estonian: mälv
- Finnish: (dialectal) mälvi
- Karelian: mälvi
- Võro: mälv'
Further reading
- “mälv”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Entry #527 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
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