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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kärtä

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

Sound-symbolic.

Noun

*kärtä[1]

  1. smell of burning

Inflection
Inflection of *kärtä
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
singular plural
nominative *kärtä *kärdät
accusative *kärdän *kärdät
genitive *kärdän *kärtäden
*kärteiden
partitive *kärtädä *kärteidä
inessive *kärdässä
*kärdähnä		 *kärdeissä
*kärdeihnä
elative *kärdästä *kärdeistä
illative *kärtähen *kärteihen
adessive *kärdällä *kärdeillä
ablative *kärdältä *kärdeiltä
allative *kärtälen
*kärtälek		 *kärteilen
*kärteilek
essive *kärtänä *kärteinä
translative *kärdäksi *kärdeiksi
instructive *kärdän *kärdein
comitative *kärtänek *kärteinek
abessive *kärdättä *kärdeittä

Descendants
  • Estonian: (dialectal) kärd
  • Finnish: ⇒ käry, (dialectal) kärty, kärtty
  • Võro: kärd

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

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