Reconstruction:Proto-Samic/mālē

This Proto-Samic 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-Samic

Etymology

According to Aikio (2009), a conflation of two words of distinct origin; the sense "soup" (and the secondary development "animal blood") is borrowed from Proto-Norse [script needed] (*mālą), from Proto-Germanic *mēlą (“meal, mealtime”) and the sense "sap" is borrowed from Finnish mahla (“sap”).[1]

Noun

*mālē

  1. soup
  2. animal blood
  3. sap

Inflection

Even
Nominative *mālē
Genitive *māl̯ēn
Singular Plural
Nominative *mālē *māl̯ēk
Accusative *māl̯ēm *māl̯ijtē
Partitive *mālētē
Genitive *māl̯ēn *māl̯ij
Essive *mālēnē *māl̯ijnē
Inessive *māl̯ēsnē
Elative *māl̯ēstē *māl̯ijstē
Illative *mālās̯ën —
Comitative *māl̯ijnē
*māl̯ijnë 		—
Abessive *māl̯ēptāk̯ëk —

Derived terms

  • *mālēs (“meal, mealtime”)

Descendants

  • Western Samic:
    • Southern Sami: maelie
    • Ume Sami: mállie
    • Pite Sami: málle
    • Lule Sami: málle
    • Northern Sami: málli
  • Eastern Samic:
  • → Finnish: (dialectal, rare) maala (“animal blood”), ⇒ maalakakku (“clot of blood”), maalaleipä (“blood bread”)

Further reading

  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

References

  1. ^ Aikio, Ante. 2009. The Saami loanwords in Finnish and Karelian. PhD thesis. University of Oulu.
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