Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/pettädäk

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

Possibly borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (whence Latvian spiest and Lithuanian spęsti) (derived with +‎ *-tädäk, i.e. *pe(n)t-tä-), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *spenˀstei (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (to draw, stretch)).[1] Holopainen & Junttila (2022), however, finds semantic and phonological issues with this etymology, and cite that Aikio thinks the word may have regular cognates in Permic (Proto-Permic *pɔtni, if the word's original sense was to give way, fail).[2]

Verb

*pettädäk (stem *pettä-)[3]

  1. to betray
  2. to deceive
  3. to lie
  4. to give away, fail (of a structure, etc.)

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Estonian: petma/petta
  • Finnish: pettää
  • Ingrian: pettää
  • Karelian:
    • North Karelian: pettyä
    • South Karelian: pettiä
  • Livonian: piettõ, (Salaca) piett
  • Livvi: pettiä
  • Ludian: petties
  • Veps: pettas
  • Võro: petmä/pettäq
  • Votic: pettä

References

  1. ^ Koivulehto, Jorma (2009) “Etymologisesti hämäriä -(is)tA-johdosverbejä, lainoja ja omapohjaisia”, in SUSA/JSFOu 92[1]
  2. ^ Holopainen, Sampsa, Junttila, Santeri (2022) Die alten arischen und baltischen Lehnverben der uralischen Sprachen, Dettelbach: Verlag J.H. Röll GmbH, →ISBN, pages 99–100
  3. ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*pettä-”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎[2] (in Finnish)

Further reading

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