Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/mäkrä

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. Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *marþraz (marten), but this is unlikely for phonetic reasons.

Noun

*mäkrä[1]

  1. badger

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: mäger, (dialectal) määr
  • Finnish: mäyrä
  • Karelian:
  • Livonian: mä’ggõrz
  • Livvi: mägry
  • Ludian: mägr
  • Veps: mägr

References

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

Further reading

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