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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/künä

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-Permic *küńä.

Noun

*künä

  1. trough
    Synonym: *aldas, *kaukalo, *ruuhi
  2. quill, hollow shaft (lower shaft of a feather)

Inflection
Inflection of *künä
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
singular plural
nominative *künä *künät
accusative *künän *künät
genitive *künän *künäden
*küneiden
partitive *künädä *küneidä
inessive *künässä
*künähnä		 *küneissä
*küneihnä
elative *künästä *küneistä
illative *künähen *küneihen
adessive *künällä *küneillä
ablative *künältä *küneiltä
allative *künälen
*künälek		 *küneilen
*küneilek
essive *künänä *küneinä
translative *künäksi *küneiksi
instructive *künän *künein
comitative *künänek *küneinek
abessive *künättä *küneittä

Descendants
  • Estonian: küna
  • Finnish: kynä
  • Karelian: kynä
  • Livonian: kinā
  • Livvi: kynä
  • Ludian: künä

Further reading
  • “küna”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Entry #1314 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
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