Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/keühä

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

Likely borrowed from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (“shy, embarrassed, loathsome, odious”), despite the difference in meaning.

Adjective

*keühä

1. poor (low-quality)

   Synonyms: *hoono, *këhna

2. poor (with few or no possessions)

   Antonym: *rik'as

Inflection

Inflection of *keühä

Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility.
		singular	plural
nominative		*keühä	*keühät
accusative		*keühän	*keühät
genitive		*keühän	*keühäden *keüheiden
partitive		*keühädä	*keüheidä
inessive		*keühässä *keühähnä	*keüheissä *keüheihnä
elative		*keühästä	*keüheistä
illative		*keühähen	*keüheihen
adessive		*keühällä	*keüheillä
ablative		*keühältä	*keüheiltä
allative		*keühälen *keühälek	*keüheilen *keüheilek
essive		*keühänä	*keüheinä
translative		*keühäksi	*keüheiksi
instructive		*keühän	*keühein
comitative		*keühänek	*keüheinek
abessive		*keühättä	*keüheittä

Derived terms

• *keühtüdäk

Descendants

• Estonian: kehv
• Finnish: köyhä
• Ingrian: köyhä
  • → Votic: köühe
• Karelian:
  • North Karelian: keyhä, köyhä
  • South Karelian: keyhä, köyhä
• Livvi: keyhy
• Ludian: köüh
• Veps: köuh
• Võro: kehv
• Votic: (Kattila) tšöühä
• → Southern Sami: giehvie
• → Lule Sami: giehe
• → Northern Sami: geafi
• → Inari Sami: kieyhi

Further reading

• “kehv”, 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), 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