Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/jämedä

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 earlier *jämä-tä, derived from Proto-Finno-Permic *jämä- with the suffix *-ëda.

Adjective

*jämedä[1]

  1. stiff, sturdy
  2. thick
  3. coarse

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: jäme
  • Finnish: jämeä
  • Ingrian: jämmiä
  • Karelian:
    • North Karelian: jämie
    • South Karelian: jämie
  • Livonian: ja’mdõ
  • Livvi: jämei
  • Ludian: d'ämed
  • Veps: jämed
  • Võro: jämme
  • Votic: jämmiä

From *jämä-kkä (+ *-kka):

From *jämä-ahtadak (+ *-ahtadak):

References

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

Further reading

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