Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kahja

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 from earlier *kašja and borrowed from Proto-Germanic *kāsijaz (compare Proto-West Germanic *kāsī).

Noun

*kahja

1. alcoholic drink

Inflection

Inflection of *kahja

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*kahja	*kahjat
accusative		*kahjan	*kahjat
genitive		*kahjan	*kahjadën *kahjoidën
partitive		*kahjada	*kahjoida
inessive		*kahjassa *kahjahna	*kahjoissa *kahjoihna
elative		*kahjasta	*kahjoista
illative		*kahjahën	*kahjoihën
adessive		*kahjalla	*kahjoilla
ablative		*kahjalta	*kahjoilta
allative		*kahjalën *kahjalëk	*kahjoilën *kahjoilëk
essive		*kahjana	*kahjoina
translative		*kahjaksi	*kahjoiksi
instructive		*kahjan	*kahjoin
comitative		*kahjanëk	*kahjoinëk
abessive		*kahjatta	*kahjoitta

Descendants

• Estonian: kahi (“libation”)
• Finnish: (obsolete) kahja (“beer ?”)
  • ⇒ Finnish: (dialectal) kahjassa (“drunk, intoxicated”)
• Karelian:
  • North Karelian: kahja (“bad alcohol”)
• Võro: kahi (“sweet wedding drink made from milk and beer, libation”)

Further reading

• “kahi”, 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), “kahja”, 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