Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/pistädäk

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-Permic *pistä-. Cognate with Proto-Samic *pëstētēk and Eastern Mari пышташ (pyštaš).

Verb

*pistädäk (stem *pistä-)[1]

  1. to poke, to thrust, to stab, to sting
  2. to put, to place

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: pistma/pista
  • Finnish: pistää
  • Ingrian: pistää
  • Karelian: pisteä
  • Livonian: pistõ
    • Latvian: pist (to fuck)
  • Livvi: pystiä
  • Ludian: püštädä
  • Veps: pištta
  • Votic: pissä

References

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

Further reading

  • pistma”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Entry #1491 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.