Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/askël

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-Uralic *aśkele.

Noun

*askël[1]

  1. step, pace

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: askeldama/askeldada (to bustle)
  • Finnish: askel
  • Karelian:
    • North Karelian: aškel
    • South Karelian: (dialectal) aškel, aššel
  • Livvi: askel
  • Võro: asõl' (chore, labor)

References

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

Further reading

  • askel”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Entry #31 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.