Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/hap'oin
Proto-Finnic
Etymology
From earlier *šappojmi, from Proto-Finno-Permic *šappa(-ma), possibly borrowed from a substrate language.[1]
Adjective
*hap'oin[2]
Inflection
Uncertain; the vowel stem may have been *happama-, which would have resulted in levelling; to the nominative **hap'an in Northern Finnic, and to oblique forms elsewhere. This alteration would have been preserved in Old Literary Finnish, where hapoin ~ happaman (nominative ~ genitive) is attested.
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Estonian: hapu
- Finnish: hapan, (obsolete) hapoin, hapoinen
- Ingrian: hapan
- Karelian:
- Livonian: appõn
- Veps: hapan- (only in compounds, e.g. hapanmaid)
- Võro: hapu
- Votic: (Kattila) apoo
References
- ^ Junttila, Santeri, Kallio, Petri, Holopainen, Sampsa, Kuokkala, Juha, Pystynen, Juho, editors (2020–), “hapan”, in Suomen vanhimman sanaston etymologinen verkkosanakirja[1] (in Finnish), retrieved 4 August 2025
- ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–), “*hap̆poin”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary][2] (in Finnish)