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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/sekä

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-Uralic *sekä (“inside, among”).[1]

Particle

*sekä[2]

  1. mixed
  2. among

Derived terms
  • *segät'äk

Descendants
  • Estonian: sega-, ⇒ sekka (illative), seas (inessive), seast (elative)
  • ⇒ Livonian: siegās (inessive), sieʾggõ (illative)
  • Võro: segä-, ⇒ sekkä (illative), seehn (inessive), seest (elative)

In Northern Finnic, the root has adopted back-vowel harmony (*sëka):

  • Finnish: seka-, ⇒ sekaan (illative), seassa (inessive), seasta (elative)
  • Ingrian: seka-, ⇒ sekkaa (illative), seas (inessive), seast (elative)
  • Karelian:
    • North Karelian: šeka- ⇒ šekah (illative), šejašša (inessive), šejašta (elative)
    • South Karelian: šega- ⇒ šegah (illative), šejašša (inessive), šejašta (elative)
  • Livvi: sega-, ⇒ segah (illative)
  • Ludian: sega-
  • Veps: sega
  • → Proto-Samic: *seakē (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Ylikoski, Jussi. The origins of the western Uralic s-cases revisited: historiographical, functional-typological and Samoyedic perspectives. FUF 63: 6–78 (2016)
  2. Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*sekä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto‎ (in Finnish)

Further reading
  • “segama”, 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), “seka”, 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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