Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/ükteksä

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

Proto-Finnic cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : *ükteksä
    Ordinal : *ükteksänci

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Permic *ükteksä (cognate with Erzya вейксэ (vejksë), Moksha вейхкса (vejhksa)), in some way from *ükci (one) (see the Proto-Finno-Permic entry for more). Compare *kaktëksa (eight).

Numeral

*ükteksä

  1. nine

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Estonian: üheksa
  • Finnish: yhdeksän
  • Ingrian: yheksän
  • Karelian:
  • Livonian: ī’dõks, (Salaca) ǖdiks
  • Livvi: yheksä
  • Ludian: üheksä
  • Veps: ühesa
  • Võro: ütessä, ütesä
  • Votic: ühesä
  • ? Proto-Samic: *ëkcē

Further reading

  • Kallio, Petri (2020–), “*ükteksän”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎[1] (in Finnish)