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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/pähkä

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

From Proto-Finno-Permic *päškɜ.

Noun

*pähkä

  1. nut, hazelnut

Inflection

Descendants

Note that *pähkä is a word that unattested in any modern Finnic languages, and thus, it only survives in affixed variants *pähkäs, *pähkänä, *pähkele, *pähken (oblique *pähkeme-), *pähkenä, *pähkime, and *pähkinä.

References

  • pähkel in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN
  • Entry #1473 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.
  • Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000) Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words] (in Finnish), [note: linked online version also includes some other etymological sources], Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
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