Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/sikedä

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 *śiketä (whence also Erzya сееде (sejede), Moksha [script needed] (śid́ä)).

Adjective

*sikedä[1]

  1. thick, dense

Inflection

Descendants

  • Finnish: sikeä
  • Karelian:
    • North Karelian: šikie
    • South Karelian: sigie
  • Livvi: sigei

References

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

Further reading

  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “sikeä”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The Origin of Finnish Words]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
  • Entry #1590 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.