Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/näärä

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

Related to Proto-Samic *nārēńčë, *nārānë(s), further origin unknown.

Noun

*näärä[1]

  1. stye, hordeolum

Inflection

Descendants

From *näärä:

  • Finnish: (obsolete) näärä
  • Livonian: nǟr
  • Votic: (Jõgõperä) nääre

From *näärek ("gland"):

References

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

Further reading

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