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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/mendinkä(inen)

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 *menþingō (later *minþingō) (whence Old Norse minning (“memory, recollection, remembrance”)). It's unclear if the suffix +‎ *-inën was already added in Proto-Finnic.

Noun

*mendinkä(inen)

  1. spirit, ghost of a deceased person

Inflection
Inflection of *mendinkä(inen)
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
singular plural
nominative *mendinkäinen *mendinkäicet
accusative *mendinkäicen *mendinkäicet
genitive *mendinkäicen *mendingäicten
*mendinkäiciden
partitive *mendingäictä *mendinkäicidä
inessive *mendinkäicessä
*mendinkäicehnä		 *mendinkäicissä
*mendinkäicihnä
elative *mendinkäicestä *mendinkäicistä
illative *mendinkäicehen *mendinkäicihen
adessive *mendinkäicellä *mendinkäicillä
ablative *mendinkäiceltä *mendinkäiciltä
allative *mendinkäicelen
*mendinkäicelek		 *mendinkäicilen
*mendinkäicilek
essive *mendingäinnä *mendinkäicinä
translative *mendinkäiceksi *mendinkäiciksi
instructive *mendinkäicen *mendinkäicin
comitative *mendingäinnek *mendinkäicinek
abessive *mendinkäicettä *mendinkäicittä

Descendants
  • Finnish: menninkäinen
  • ⇒? Karelian:
    • North Karelian: mönni
    • South Karelian: mönni

Further reading
  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “menninkäinen”, 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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