 | ThisProto-Finnic entry containsreconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directlyattested, but are hypothesized to have existed based oncomparative evidence. |
FromProto-Uralic*tinä.
The exact development of the nominative form*cinA and the inflected stem*cinu- is unclear. Traditionally, it has been thought that the *-u in oblique forms originates from a dual inflection, which has otherwise been lost (compare the Proto-Samic second-person dual pronoun*tonōj). More recently, however, this has been questioned. Kallio (2021) points out that in South Estonian (including Võro), the nominative vowel is in fact a back vowel *a, unlike in most other Finnic languages where it is *ä, and the inflection stem vowel is *-o- instead of *-u-. He considers *-u- primary, but doesn't leave out the possibility that *a is primary, or that the original form may have even been*cin.[1] This ties in to wider discussion about the exact form this pronoun had in Proto-Uralic as well.
*cinä
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *cinä | — | |
| accusative | *cinun | — | |
| genitive | *cinun | — | |
| partitive | *cinuda | — | |
| inessive | *cinussa *cinuhna | — | |
| elative | *cinusta | — | |
| illative | *cinuhën | — | |
| adessive | *cinulla | — | |
| ablative | *cinulta | — | |
| allative | *cinulën *cinulëk | — | |
| essive | *cinuna | — | |
| translative | *cinuksi | — | |
| instructive | *cinun | — | |
| comitative | *cinunëk | — | |
| abessive | *cinutta | — | |