Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/ürki

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

*ürki^[1]

moment
Synonym: *hetki

Inflection

Inflection of *ürki

	singular	plural
Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
nominative	*ürki	*ürget
accusative	*ürgen	*ürget
genitive	*ürgen	ürkeden ürkiden
partitive	*ürkedä	*ürkidä
inessive	ürgessä ürgehnä	ürgissä ürgihnä
elative	*ürgestä	*ürgistä
illative	*ürkehen	*ürkihen
adessive	*ürgellä	*ürgillä
ablative	*ürgeltä	*ürgiltä
allative	ürkelen ürkelek	ürkilen ürkilek
essive	*ürkenä	*ürkinä
translative	*ürgeksi	*ürgiksi
instructive	*ürgen	*ürgin
comitative	*ürkenek	*ürkinek
abessive	*ürgettä	*ürgittä

Descendants

Estonian: (archaic, dialectal) ürg, ⇒ ürgama
⇒ Finnish: (obsolete, dialectal) yrjen, yrjeksi, yrjeltä, ⇒? yrittää
Ingrian: yren
Livonian: irg

References

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

“ürgama”, 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), “yrki”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The Origin of Finnish Words]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN

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

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