Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/hoi

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *hui

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Permic *šoje, *šuje. Cognate with Proto-Samic *suojë.

Noun

*hoi

1. netting-needle

   Synonym: *käpü

Inflection

Inflection of *hoi

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*hoi	*hoit
accusative		*hoin	*hoit
genitive		*hoin	*hoidën *hoidën
partitive		*hoita	*hoita
inessive		*hoissa *hoihna	*hoissa *hoihna
elative		*hoista	*hoista
illative		*hoisën	*hoisën
adessive		*hoilla	*hoilla
ablative		*hoilta	*hoilta
allative		*hoilën *hoilëk	*hoilën *hoilëk
essive		*hoina	*hoina
translative		*hoiksi	*hoiksi
instructive		*hoin	*hoin
comitative		*hoinëk	*hoinëk
abessive		*hoitta	*hoitta

Descendants

From *hoi:

• Livonian: vȯi
• Võro: hoi

From *hui:

• Estonian: hui
• Finnish: (dialectal) hui

Further reading

• “hui”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
• Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*hui/*hoi”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎^[1] (in Finnish)
• Entry #1621 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.