Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/iso

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

Possibly borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian (whence Sanskrit इच्छति (icchati)).

Noun

*iso

1. desire, lust, appetite

Inflection

Inflection of *iso

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*iso	*isot
accusative		*ison	*isot
genitive		*ison	*isodën *isoidën
partitive		*isoda	*isoida
inessive		*isossa *isohna	*isoissa *isoihna
elative		*isosta	*isoista
illative		*isohën	*isoihën
adessive		*isolla	*isoilla
ablative		*isolta	*isoilta
allative		*isolën *isolëk	*isoilën *isoilëk
essive		*isona	*isoina
translative		*isoksi	*isoiksi
instructive		*ison	*isoin
comitative		*isonëk	*isoinëk
abessive		*isotta	*isoitta

Descendants

• Estonian: isu
  • ⇒ Estonian: isuma
    • → Finnish: isota (“to hunger for, desire”)
• Ingrian: iso
• Veps: izo
• Võro: iso
• Votic: iso

Further reading

• “isu”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012