"meri" meaning in Proto-Finnic

See meri in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: Most likely borrowing from Proto-Balto-Slavic *mári (“sea”). Perhaps through a change *a…i > *e…i, cf. *reki. Etymology templates: {{bor|urj-fin-pro|ine-bsl-pro|*mári||sea}} Proto-Balto-Slavic *mári (“sea”) Inflection templates: {{urj-fin-decl|mere}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], meri [nominative, singular], meret [nominative, plural], meren [accusative, singular], meret [accusative, plural], meren [genitive, singular], merden [genitive, plural], meriden [genitive, plural], mertä [partitive, singular], meridä [partitive, plural], meressä [inessive, singular], merehnä [inessive, singular], merissä [inessive, plural], merihnä [inessive, plural], merestä [elative, singular], meristä [elative, plural], merehen [illative, singular], merihen [illative, plural], merellä [adessive, singular], merillä [adessive, plural], mereltä [ablative, singular], meriltä [ablative, plural], merelen [allative, singular], merelek [allative, singular], merilen [allative, plural], merilek [allative, plural], mernä [essive, singular], merinä [essive, plural], mereksi [singular, translative], meriksi [plural, translative], meren [instructive, singular], merin [instructive, plural], mernek [comitative, singular], merinek [comitative, plural], merettä [abessive, singular], merittä [abessive, plural]
  1. sea Tags: reconstruction
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  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "et",
            "2": "meri"
          },
          "expansion": "Estonian: meri",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Estonian: meri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fi",
            "2": "meri"
          },
          "expansion": "Finnish: meri",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Finnish: meri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "izh",
            "2": "meri"
          },
          "expansion": "Ingrian: meri",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ingrian: meri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "krl",
            "2": "meri"
          },
          "expansion": "Karelian: meri",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Karelian: meri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "liv",
            "2": "mer",
            "3": "mier",
            "alt": "me'r",
            "alt2": "mie'r"
          },
          "expansion": "Livonian: me'r, mie'r",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Livonian: me'r, mie'r"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "olo",
            "2": "meri"
          },
          "expansion": "Livvi: meri",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Livvi: meri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lud",
            "2": "meri"
          },
          "expansion": "Ludian: meri",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ludian: meri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vep",
            "2": "meri"
          },
          "expansion": "Veps: meri",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Veps: meri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vro",
            "2": "meri"
          },
          "expansion": "Võro: meri",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Võro: meri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vot",
            "2": "meri"
          },
          "expansion": "Votic: meri",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Votic: meri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "smi-pro",
            "2": "*mearë",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Proto-Samic: *mearë",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Proto-Samic: *mearë"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "urj-fin-pro",
        "2": "ine-bsl-pro",
        "3": "*mári",
        "4": "",
        "5": "sea"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Balto-Slavic *mári (“sea”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Most likely borrowing from Proto-Balto-Slavic *mári (“sea”). Perhaps through a change *a…i > *e…i, cf. *reki.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "urj-fin-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meri",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meret",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meren",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meret",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meren",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merden",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meriden",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mertä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "partitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meridä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "partitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meressä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merehnä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merissä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merihnä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merestä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "elative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meristä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "elative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merehen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "illative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merihen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "illative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merellä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merillä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mereltä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meriltä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merelen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merelek",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merilen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merilek",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mernä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "essive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merinä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "essive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mereksi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "translative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meriksi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "translative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meren",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instructive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instructive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mernek",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "comitative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merinek",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "comitative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merettä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "abessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merittä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "abessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mere"
      },
      "name": "urj-fin-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Finnic",
  "lang_code": "urj-fin-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/meri",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Finnic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Finnic nominals by type/Vle, Vne, Vre, Vse",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sea"
      ],
      "id": "en-meri-urj-fin-pro-noun-SmnxnIwm",
      "links": [
        [
          "sea",
          "sea"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "meri"
}
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "et",
            "2": "meri"
          },
          "expansion": "Estonian: meri",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Estonian: meri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fi",
            "2": "meri"
          },
          "expansion": "Finnish: meri",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Finnish: meri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "izh",
            "2": "meri"
          },
          "expansion": "Ingrian: meri",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ingrian: meri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "krl",
            "2": "meri"
          },
          "expansion": "Karelian: meri",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Karelian: meri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "liv",
            "2": "mer",
            "3": "mier",
            "alt": "me'r",
            "alt2": "mie'r"
          },
          "expansion": "Livonian: me'r, mie'r",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Livonian: me'r, mie'r"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "olo",
            "2": "meri"
          },
          "expansion": "Livvi: meri",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Livvi: meri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lud",
            "2": "meri"
          },
          "expansion": "Ludian: meri",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ludian: meri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vep",
            "2": "meri"
          },
          "expansion": "Veps: meri",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Veps: meri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vro",
            "2": "meri"
          },
          "expansion": "Võro: meri",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Võro: meri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vot",
            "2": "meri"
          },
          "expansion": "Votic: meri",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Votic: meri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "smi-pro",
            "2": "*mearë",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Proto-Samic: *mearë",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Proto-Samic: *mearë"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "urj-fin-pro",
        "2": "ine-bsl-pro",
        "3": "*mári",
        "4": "",
        "5": "sea"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Balto-Slavic *mári (“sea”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Most likely borrowing from Proto-Balto-Slavic *mári (“sea”). Perhaps through a change *a…i > *e…i, cf. *reki.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "urj-fin-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meri",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meret",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meren",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meret",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meren",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merden",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meriden",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mertä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "partitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meridä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "partitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meressä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merehnä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merissä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merihnä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merestä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "elative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meristä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "elative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merehen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "illative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merihen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "illative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merellä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merillä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mereltä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meriltä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merelen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merelek",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merilen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merilek",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mernä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "essive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merinä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "essive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mereksi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "translative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meriksi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "translative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meren",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instructive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instructive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mernek",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "comitative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merinek",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "comitative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merettä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "abessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "merittä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "abessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mere"
      },
      "name": "urj-fin-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Finnic",
  "lang_code": "urj-fin-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/meri",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Proto-Finnic entries with incorrect language header",
        "Proto-Finnic lemmas",
        "Proto-Finnic nominals by type/Vle, Vne, Vre, Vse",
        "Proto-Finnic nouns",
        "Proto-Finnic terms borrowed from Proto-Balto-Slavic",
        "Proto-Finnic terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic",
        "urj-fin-pro:Landforms",
        "urj-fin-pro:Water"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sea"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sea",
          "sea"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "meri"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Proto-Finnic dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (b941637 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.