Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kerjät'äk

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 Proto-Finno-Ugric *kerjä- (to request) +‎ *-t'ak. Cognate with Hungarian kér, Komi-Permyak корны (korny) and Udmurt курыны (kuryny).

Verb

*kerjät'äk (stem *kerjädä-)[1]

  1. to beg

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: kerjama/kerjata
  • Finnish: kerjätä
    • Northern Sami: gearjidit
    • Lule Sami: kierjētit
  • Livonian: kerrõ

References

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

Further reading

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