Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/ülkä

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

Cognate with Proto-Samic *ëlkē. Like *ürkä (Finnish yrkä), probably from Proto-Uralic *irkä, *ürkä (man, son, boy).

Noun

*ülkä[1]

  1. groom, bridegroom
    Synonym: *sulhainën

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: (dialectal, obsolete) ülg
  • Finnish: (archaic) ylkä
  • Võro: ülä

References

  1. ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*ülkä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎[1] (in Finnish)

Further reading

  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “ylkä”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The Origin of Finnish Words]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN