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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kääppä

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 earlier *käppä, possibly borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (whence Latvian kaps, Lithuanian kapas) or, alternatively, possibly from Proto-Finno-Ugric *käppä (whence Mansi [script needed] (käp), [script needed] (kap) ("hill")).

Noun

*kääppä

  1. burial mound
  2. heap of stones

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: kääbas, (dialectal) kääp
  • Finnish: (dialectal) kääppä
  • Veps: käp
  • Võro: kääbäs
  • Votic: (Kattila) tšääppä

Further reading

  • kääbas in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN
  • Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), kääppä”, in 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
  • Entry #267 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.
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