Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/helkkädäk

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

Onomatopoeic.

Verb

*helkkädäk (stem *helkkä-)[1]

  1. to sound (brightly), to tinkle

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: helkama/helgata, helkima/helkida
  • Finnish: helkkää, helkkyä
  • Karelian:
    • South Karelian: helkkiä
  • Livonian: eļkõ
  • Livvi: helkiä
  • Võro: helkämä/helgädäq
  • Votic: elkkaa (Kattila)

References

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

Further reading

  • helkima”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012