Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/petägä

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

Proto-Uralic *pečä +‎ *-gä. Akin to Proto-Samic *peacē.

Noun

*petägä[1]

  1. pine (tree)

Inflection

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Estonian: (dialectal) pedajas
  • Finnish: petäjä
  • Ingrian: petäjä, (Soikkola) pettääjä
  • Karelian: petäjä
  • Livonian:
    • Courland Livonian: piedāg
    • Vidzeme Livonian: pädag
  • Livvi: pedäi
  • Ludian: pedai
  • Veps: pede͔i
  • Võro: petäi
  • Votic: petäje

References

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