Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/mükrä

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.

Noun

*mükrä[1]

  1. mole (mammal of the Talpidae family)

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: mügri, (dialectal) müger
  • Finnish: myyrä, (dialectal) mykrä
  • Ingrian: mygrä
  • Karelian:
  • Livonian: mi’griki
  • Livvi: mygry
  • Ludian: mügr
  • Võro: mükr
  • Votic: mügre

References

  1. ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*mükrä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎[1] (in Finnish)
  • mügri”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012