Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/pucki

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

From Proto-Uralic *pučke. Cognates include Proto-Samic *pockë (“Angelica”).

Noun

*pucki

1. plant with a hollow stem, especially various plants of genus Angelica
2. tube, pipe

   Synonym: *toro

Inflection

Inflection of *pucki

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*pucki	*pucket
accusative		*pucken	*pucket
genitive		*pucken	*puckedën *puckidën
partitive		*puckeda	*puckida
inessive		*puckessa *puckehna	*puckissa *puckihna
elative		*puckesta	*puckista
illative		*puckehën	*puckihën
adessive		*puckella	*puckilla
ablative		*puckelta	*puckilta
allative		*puckelën *puckelëk	*puckilën *puckilëk
essive		*puckena	*puckina
translative		*puckeksi	*puckiksi
instructive		*pucken	*puckin
comitative		*puckenëk	*puckinëk
abessive		*pucketta	*puckitta

Descendants

• Estonian: putk
• Finnish: putki
• Ingrian: putki
• Karelian:
  • North Karelian: putki
  • South Karelian: butki
• Livonian:
  • Courland Livonian: puțk, puțkõz
  • Vidzeme Livonian: puķķ, puķķi
    • → Latgalian: puče
    • → Latvian: puķe
• Livvi: butki
• Ludian: butk
• Veps: but'k
• Võro: pütsk'
• Votic: putkõ

Further reading

• “putk”, 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), “putki”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN