Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/pääskü

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 Proto-Finno-Ugric *päčkɜ.

Noun

*pääskü[1]

  1. swallow, martin (bird of family Hirundinidae)

Inflection

Descendants

  • Finnish: pääsky
  • Ingrian: pääsky
  • Karelian: peäskyine
  • Võro: pääsüke, pääsükene
  • Votic: pääskü

From *pääskoi:

From [Term?]:

  • Livonian: pešlinki
  • Veps: päskheine
  • Võro: päästläne, pääsläne

References

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

Further reading

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