Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/eccidäk

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

Alternative forms

  • *occidak

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *enþjan-.

Verb

*eccidäk (stem *ecci-)

  1. to search (for), to look for, to seek

Inflection

Descendants

From *eccidäk:

  • Finnish: etsiä
  • Ingrian: etsiä
  • Karelian:
  • Livvi: eččie
  • Ludian: eččida
  • Veps: ectä, ecta

From *occidak:

  • Estonian: otsima/otsida
  • Livonian: (Courland) vȯtšõ, (Salaca) otš
  • Võro: ots'ma/otsiq
  • Votic: (Kattila) õttsia

Further reading

  • Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*occi-”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎[1] (in Finnish)
  • otsima”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012