Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/mänkidäk

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 *mänkädäk +‎ *-idäk.

Verb

*mänkidäk (stem *mänki-)[1]

  1. to play (act in a manner such that one has fun)

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: mängima/mängida
  • Finnish: (archaic, dialectal) mänkiä
  • Livonian: mängõ
  • Võro: mäng'mä/mängiq
  • Votic: mäntšiä

From *mänkädäk:

  • Votic: mäntšä

References

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

Further reading

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