Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/jüvä

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 *jewä (whence also the variant *jivä), borrowed from Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?] or otherwise from some other Indo-European language (compare Sanskrit यव (yava, grain, cereal)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yéwos. Similar words in the other Uralic languages (such as Erzya юв (juv, awn), Udmurt ю (ju, grain, cereal)) are probably separate loans, mostly from Indo-Iranian.[1]

Noun

*jüvä[2]

  1. grain

Inflection

Descendants

  • Finnish: jyvä
  • Ingrian: jyvä
  • Karelian:
  • Livvi: jyvä
  • Ludian: düvä
  • Veps: jüvä
  • Võro: jüvä

From *jivä > *ivä:

  • Estonian: iva
  • Votic: (Mati) ivä

References

  1. ^ Junttila, Santeri, Kallio, Petri, Holopainen, Sampsa, Kuokkala, Juha, Pystynen, Juho, editors (2020–), “jyvä”, in Suomen vanhimman sanaston etymologinen verkkosanakirja[1] (in Finnish)
  2. ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*jüvä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎[2] (in Finnish)

Further reading

  • iva”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Entry #1245 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.