"nälkä" meaning in Proto-Finnic

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Noun

Etymology: From earlier *ńäl- + *-kä, from Proto-Uralic *ńäle- (“to swallow”). Formally identical to Proto-Samic *ńālkē (“tasty”). Etymology templates: {{suffix|urj-fin-pro||*ka|alt1=*ńäl-|alt2=*kä|id2=nominal}} *ńäl- + *-kä, {{der|urj-fin-pro|urj-pro|*ńäle-||to swallow}} Proto-Uralic *ńäle- (“to swallow”), {{cog|smi-pro|*ńālkē||tasty}} Proto-Samic *ńālkē (“tasty”) Inflection templates: {{urj-fin-decl|nälkä}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], nälkä [nominative, singular], nälgät [nominative, plural], nälgän [accusative, singular], nälgät [accusative, plural], nälgän [genitive, singular], nälkäden [genitive, plural], nälkeiden [genitive, plural], nälkädä [partitive, singular], nälkeidä [partitive, plural], nälgässä [inessive, singular], nälgähnä [inessive, singular], nälgeissä [inessive, plural], nälgeihnä [inessive, plural], nälgästä [elative, singular], nälgeistä [elative, plural], nälkähen [illative, singular], nälkeihen [illative, plural], nälgällä [adessive, singular], nälgeillä [adessive, plural], nälgältä [ablative, singular], nälgeiltä [ablative, plural], nälkälen [allative, singular], nälkälek [allative, singular], nälkeilen [allative, plural], nälkeilek [allative, plural], nälkänä [essive, singular], nälkeinä [essive, plural], nälgäksi [singular, translative], nälgeiksi [plural, translative], nälgän [instructive, singular], nälgein [instructive, plural], nälkänek [comitative, singular], nälkeinek [comitative, plural], nälgättä [abessive, singular], nälgeittä [abessive, plural]
  1. hunger Tags: reconstruction Derived forms: nälkähinen
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "et",
            "2": "nälg"
          },
          "expansion": "Estonian: nälg",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Estonian: nälg"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fi",
            "2": "nälkä"
          },
          "expansion": "Finnish: nälkä",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Finnish: nälkä"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "izh",
            "2": "nälkä"
          },
          "expansion": "Ingrian: nälkä",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ingrian: nälkä"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "krl",
            "2": "nälkä",
            "3": "nälgä"
          },
          "expansion": "Karelian: nälkä, nälgä",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Karelian: nälkä, nälgä"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "liv",
            "2": "nǟlga"
          },
          "expansion": "Livonian: nǟlga",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Livonian: nǟlga"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "olo",
            "2": "nälgy"
          },
          "expansion": "Livvi: nälgy",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Livvi: nälgy"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lud",
            "2": "näl'g"
          },
          "expansion": "Ludian: näl'g",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ludian: näl'g"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vep",
            "2": "näl'g"
          },
          "expansion": "Veps: näl'g",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Veps: näl'g"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vro",
            "2": "nälg"
          },
          "expansion": "Võro: nälg",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Võro: nälg"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vot",
            "2": "nältše"
          },
          "expansion": "Votic: nältše",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Votic: nältše"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "smi-pro",
            "2": "*nealkē",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Proto-Samic: *nealkē",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Proto-Samic: *nealkē (see there for further descendants)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "urj-fin-pro",
        "2": "",
        "3": "*ka",
        "alt1": "*ńäl-",
        "alt2": "*kä",
        "id2": "nominal"
      },
      "expansion": "*ńäl- + *-kä",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "urj-fin-pro",
        "2": "urj-pro",
        "3": "*ńäle-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to swallow"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Uralic *ńäle- (“to swallow”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "smi-pro",
        "2": "*ńālkē",
        "3": "",
        "4": "tasty"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Samic *ńālkē (“tasty”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From earlier *ńäl- + *-kä, from Proto-Uralic *ńäle- (“to swallow”). Formally identical to Proto-Samic *ńālkē (“tasty”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "urj-fin-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgät",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgän",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgät",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgän",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkäden",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkeiden",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkädä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "partitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkeidä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "partitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgässä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgähnä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgeissä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgeihnä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgästä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "elative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgeistä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "elative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkähen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "illative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkeihen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "illative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgällä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgeillä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgältä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgeiltä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkälen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkälek",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkeilen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkeilek",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkänä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "essive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkeinä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "essive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgäksi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "translative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgeiksi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "translative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgän",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instructive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgein",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instructive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkänek",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "comitative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkeinek",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "comitative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgättä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "abessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgeittä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "abessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nälkä"
      },
      "name": "urj-fin-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Finnic",
  "lang_code": "urj-fin-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/nälkä",
  "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/a-ei",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Finnic terms suffixed with *-ka (nominal)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "nälkähinen"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hunger"
      ],
      "id": "en-nälkä-urj-fin-pro-noun-W6uk-5QV",
      "links": [
        [
          "hunger",
          "hunger"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nälkä"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "nälkähinen"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "et",
            "2": "nälg"
          },
          "expansion": "Estonian: nälg",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Estonian: nälg"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fi",
            "2": "nälkä"
          },
          "expansion": "Finnish: nälkä",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Finnish: nälkä"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "izh",
            "2": "nälkä"
          },
          "expansion": "Ingrian: nälkä",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ingrian: nälkä"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "krl",
            "2": "nälkä",
            "3": "nälgä"
          },
          "expansion": "Karelian: nälkä, nälgä",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Karelian: nälkä, nälgä"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "liv",
            "2": "nǟlga"
          },
          "expansion": "Livonian: nǟlga",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Livonian: nǟlga"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "olo",
            "2": "nälgy"
          },
          "expansion": "Livvi: nälgy",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Livvi: nälgy"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lud",
            "2": "näl'g"
          },
          "expansion": "Ludian: näl'g",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ludian: näl'g"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vep",
            "2": "näl'g"
          },
          "expansion": "Veps: näl'g",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Veps: näl'g"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vro",
            "2": "nälg"
          },
          "expansion": "Võro: nälg",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Võro: nälg"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vot",
            "2": "nältše"
          },
          "expansion": "Votic: nältše",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Votic: nältše"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "smi-pro",
            "2": "*nealkē",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Proto-Samic: *nealkē",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Proto-Samic: *nealkē (see there for further descendants)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "urj-fin-pro",
        "2": "",
        "3": "*ka",
        "alt1": "*ńäl-",
        "alt2": "*kä",
        "id2": "nominal"
      },
      "expansion": "*ńäl- + *-kä",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "urj-fin-pro",
        "2": "urj-pro",
        "3": "*ńäle-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to swallow"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Uralic *ńäle- (“to swallow”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "smi-pro",
        "2": "*ńālkē",
        "3": "",
        "4": "tasty"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Samic *ńālkē (“tasty”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From earlier *ńäl- + *-kä, from Proto-Uralic *ńäle- (“to swallow”). Formally identical to Proto-Samic *ńālkē (“tasty”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "urj-fin-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgät",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgän",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgät",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgän",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkäden",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkeiden",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkädä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "partitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkeidä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "partitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgässä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgähnä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgeissä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgeihnä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgästä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "elative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgeistä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "elative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkähen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "illative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkeihen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "illative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgällä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgeillä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgältä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgeiltä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkälen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkälek",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkeilen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkeilek",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkänä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "essive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkeinä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "essive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgäksi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "translative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgeiksi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "translative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgän",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instructive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgein",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instructive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkänek",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "comitative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälkeinek",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "comitative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgättä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "abessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nälgeittä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "abessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nälkä"
      },
      "name": "urj-fin-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Finnic",
  "lang_code": "urj-fin-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/nälkä",
  "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/a-ei",
        "Proto-Finnic nouns",
        "Proto-Finnic terms derived from Proto-Uralic",
        "Proto-Finnic terms suffixed with *-ka (nominal)"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hunger"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hunger",
          "hunger"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nälkä"
}

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