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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kärppä

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

Unknown.

Noun

*kärppä[1]

  1. stoat, ermine (Mustela erminea)

Inflection
Inflection of *kärppä
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
singular plural
nominative *kärppä *kärp'ät
accusative *kärp'än *kärp'ät
genitive *kärp'än *kärppäden
*kärppeiden
partitive *kärppädä *kärppeidä
inessive *kärp'ässä
*kärp'ähnä		 *kärp'eissä
*kärp'eihnä
elative *kärp'ästä *kärp'eistä
illative *kärppähen *kärppeihen
adessive *kärp'ällä *kärp'eillä
ablative *kärp'ältä *kärp'eiltä
allative *kärppälen
*kärppälek		 *kärppeilen
*kärppeilek
essive *kärppänä *kärppeinä
translative *kärp'äksi *kärp'eiksi
instructive *kärp'än *kärp'ein
comitative *kärppänek *kärppeinek
abessive *kärp'ättä *kärp'eittä

Descendants
  • Estonian: kärp
  • Finnish: kärppä
  • Ingrian: kärppä
  • Karelian:
  • Livonian: kǟrpa (“polecat”)
  • Votic: tšärppe

References
  1. Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*kärppä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto‎ (in Finnish)

Further reading
  • “kärp”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
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