Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/pärkä

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. Cognate with Proto-Samic *pārkētētēk (to plait), suggesting earlier *pärkä.

Noun

*pärkä[1]

  1. wreath

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: pärg
    • Finnish: (dialectal) pärkä

References

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