Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/tülppä

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. Compare *tülccä.

Adjective

*tülppä

1. blunt

   Synonyms: *nürhi, *tülccä

Inflection

Inflection of *tülppä

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*tülppä	*tülp'ät
accusative		*tülp'än	*tülp'ät
genitive		*tülp'än	*tülppäden *tülppeiden
partitive		*tülppädä	*tülppeidä
inessive		*tülp'ässä *tülp'ähnä	*tülp'eissä *tülp'eihnä
elative		*tülp'ästä	*tülp'eistä
illative		*tülppähen	*tülppeihen
adessive		*tülp'ällä	*tülp'eillä
ablative		*tülp'ältä	*tülp'eiltä
allative		*tülppälen *tülppälek	*tülppeilen *tülppeilek
essive		*tülppänä	*tülppeinä
translative		*tülp'äksi	*tülp'eiksi
instructive		*tülp'än	*tülp'ein
comitative		*tülppänek	*tülppeinek
abessive		*tülp'ättä	*tülp'eittä

Descendants

• Estonian: tülp
• Finnish: tylppä
  • → Northern Sami: dulppas
• Ingrian: tylppä
• Karelian: tylppä
• Livonian: tilp, tülp
• Livvi: tylppy
• ⇒ Veps: tülpäk
• Votic: tülppe

Further reading

• “tülp”, 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), “tylppä”, 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