Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kärppä

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

Unknown.

Noun

*kärppä[1]

  1. stoat, ermine (Mustela erminea)

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: kärp
  • Finnish: kärppä
  • Ingrian: kärppä
  • Karelian:
  • Livonian: kǟrpa (polecat)
  • Votic: tšärppe

References

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

Further reading

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