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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kärnä

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

Possibly from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kärnä. Alternatively, a front vowel variant of *karna.

Noun

*kärnä

  1. tree bark
  2. scab
    Synonym: *rupi

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: kärn
  • Finnish: (dialectal) kärnä
  • Ingrian: kärnäkäs
  • Veps: kärnak
  • Võro: kärn
  • Votic: tšärnä

Further reading

  • kärn in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN
  • Entry #268 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.
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