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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kehnä

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

*kehnä

  1. dandruff or similar dirt

Inflection
Inflection of *kehnä
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
singular plural
nominative *kehnä *kehnät
accusative *kehnän *kehnät
genitive *kehnän *kehnäden
*kehneiden
partitive *kehnädä *kehneidä
inessive *kehnässä
*kehnähnä		 *kehneissä
*kehneihnä
elative *kehnästä *kehneistä
illative *kehnähen *kehneihen
adessive *kehnällä *kehneillä
ablative *kehnältä *kehneiltä
allative *kehnälen
*kehnälek		 *kehneilen
*kehneilek
essive *kehnänä *kehneinä
translative *kehnäksi *kehneiksi
instructive *kehnän *kehnein
comitative *kehnänek *kehneinek
abessive *kehnättä *kehneittä

Descendants
  • Estonian: kihn, (dialectal) kehn
  • Finnish: kehnä
  • Veps: kehn

From *keühnä:

  • Finnish: (dialectal) köyhnä, köhnä
  • Karelian:
    • North Karelian: keyhnä
    • South Karelian: keyhnä, köyhnä
  • Livvi: köyhen
  • Ludian: keühne

Further reading
  • “kihn”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “kehnä”, 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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