"tukku" meaning in Proto-Finnic

See tukku in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: Probably *tukka (“hair”) + *-u, or alternatively from *tukkidak (“to clog, block”) + *-u, or borrowed from Proto-Norse [script needed] (*dukkō) (compare Norwegian Bokmål dukke (“doll”)). Etymology templates: {{suf|urj-fin-pro|*tukka|*-u|t1=hair}} *tukka (“hair”) + *-u, {{suf|urj-fin-pro|*tukkidak|*-u|t1=to clog, block}} *tukkidak (“to clog, block”) + *-u, {{der|urj-fin-pro|gmq-pro|tr=*dukkō}} Proto-Norse [script needed] (*dukkō), {{cog|nb|dukke||doll}} Norwegian Bokmål dukke (“doll”) Inflection templates: {{urj-fin-decl|tukku}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], tukku [nominative, singular], tuk'ut [nominative, plural], tuk'un [accusative, singular], tuk'ut [accusative, plural], tuk'un [genitive, singular], tukkudën [genitive, plural], tukkuidën [genitive, plural], tukkuda [partitive, singular], tukkuida [partitive, plural], tuk'ussa [inessive, singular], tuk'uhna [inessive, singular], tuk'uissa [inessive, plural], tuk'uihna [inessive, plural], tuk'usta [elative, singular], tuk'uista [elative, plural], tukkuhën [illative, singular], tukkuihën [illative, plural], tuk'ulla [adessive, singular], tuk'uilla [adessive, plural], tuk'ulta [ablative, singular], tuk'uilta [ablative, plural], tukkulën [allative, singular], tukkulëk [allative, singular], tukkuilën [allative, plural], tukkuilëk [allative, plural], tukkuna [essive, singular], tukkuina [essive, plural], tuk'uksi [singular, translative], tuk'uiksi [plural, translative], tuk'un [instructive, singular], tuk'uin [instructive, plural], tukkunëk [comitative, singular], tukkuinëk [comitative, plural], tuk'utta [abessive, singular], tuk'uitta [abessive, plural]
  1. tuft, bunch Tags: reconstruction
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        "plural"
      ]
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "essive",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "essive",
        "plural"
      ]
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "singular",
        "translative"
      ]
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "translative"
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "singular"
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      "source": "inflection",
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      "source": "inflection",
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      "source": "inflection",
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "abessive",
        "plural"
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  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/tukku",
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        "inessive",
        "plural"
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "plural"
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "singular"
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        "plural"
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        "singular"
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        "plural"
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        "singular"
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      "source": "inflection",
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      "source": "inflection",
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "singular"
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "allative",
        "singular"
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "allative",
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "essive",
        "singular"
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "essive",
        "plural"
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        "translative"
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "singular"
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instructive",
        "plural"
      ]
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "comitative",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "comitative",
        "plural"
      ]
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "plural"
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        "1": "tukku"
      },
      "name": "urj-fin-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Finnic",
  "lang_code": "urj-fin-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/tukku",
  "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/rounded",
        "Proto-Finnic nouns",
        "Proto-Finnic terms derived from Proto-Norse",
        "Proto-Finnic terms suffixed with *-u",
        "Requests for native script for Proto-Norse terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "tuft, bunch"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tuft",
          "tuft"
        ],
        [
          "bunch",
          "bunch"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tukku"
}

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