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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/-icci

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 reconstructions
  • *-ic'ëk

Etymology

Aikio and Ylikoski (2016) proposes that the prolative ending, which they reconstruct as *-iccek (the form attested in Finnish), is in fact a contraction of a Finno-Samic postposition *śüδik (with a cognate in Proto-Samic *čëδëk, and from the same stem as *śüdäme with a lative ending), through the development *-n śüδik (*-n is the genitive ending) > *-ńśüik > *-ńćik (> (Late) Proto-Finnic *-iccek).[1] Alternatively possibly from the oblique stem *-icce- of *-inën.

Suffix

*-icci

  1. by way of, via

Descendants
  • Estonian: -itsi, -tsi
  • Finnish: -itse
  • Karelian: -ičči
  • Livvi: -iči
  • Veps: -iči

References
  1. Aikio, Ante & Ylikoski, Jussi. The origin of the Finnic l-cases. Fenno-Ugrica Suecana Nova Series 15 (2016). pp. 59-158
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