Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/mäkärä

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 *makara (whence Proto-Samic *muokēr), probably borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (whence Lithuanian makatas).

Noun

*mäkärä[1]

  1. blackfly, buffalo gnat (insect of the family Simuliidae)

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: mägar (dialectal)
  • Finnish: mäkärä
  • Karelian:
    North Karelian: mäkärä
    South Karelian: mägärä
  • Ludian: mägär

References

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