Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/leütädäk

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

Possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *hleutaną (to obtain, acquire), or already from earlier Northwest Indo-European *kleuda-. As also in e.g. *keühä and *peütä, adherence to vowel harmony indicates an early date of loaning.

The word has earlier been compared with Hungarian lel (to find), and their common ancestor could be reconstructed as *lewdä-. However, an absense of cognates in all other Uralic languages leaves this etymology less certain.

Verb

*leütädäk (stem *leütä-)[1]

  1. to find, to discover

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: leidma/leida
  • Finnish: löytää
  • Ingrian: löytää
  • Karelian: löyteä, löudeä
  • Livonian: lievd
  • Livvi: l'öydiä
  • Ludian: löütä
  • Veps: löuta, lüuta
  • Võro: löüdmä/löüdäq
  • Votic: leütä

References

  1. ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*leütä-”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎[1] (in Finnish)
  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), 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
  • leidma”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Schalin, Johan. 2004. "Itämerensuomalaisen *leütä-vartalon lainaperäisyys" ('The loan origin of the Finnic stem *leütä-'). Virittäjä 1/2004, pp. 24–33.