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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/künä

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-Permic *küńä.

Noun

*künä

  1. trough
    Synonym: *aldas, *kaukalo, *ruuhi
  2. quill, hollow shaft (lower shaft of a feather)

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: küna
  • Finnish: kynä
  • Karelian: kynä
  • Livonian: kinā
  • Livvi: kynä
  • Ludian: künä

Further reading

  • küna in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN
  • Entry #1314 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.
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