Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/köhä

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

Of onomatopoeic origin. This is one of very few words reconstructed with the short phoneme outside of diphthongs.

Noun

*köhä[1]

  1. cough

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Estonian: köha
  • Finnish: köhä
  • Ingrian: köhä
  • Karelian: köhä
  • Livonian: kie’v
  • Võro: köhä, kühä
  • Votic: tšöhä

References

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

Further reading

  • köhima”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “köhä”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The Origin of Finnish Words]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN