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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/jäkälä

This Proto-Finnic entry contains reconstructed words 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

From Proto-Finno-Permic *jäkä-. Cognate with Proto-Samic *jeakēl.

Noun

*jäkälä

  1. lichen

Inflection

Descendants

  • Finnish: jäkälä
  • Karelian: jäkälä, jägälä
  • Livvi: jägäl
  • Ludian: d'ägäl

Further reading

  • Entry #1242 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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