Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/tävü

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-Uralic *täwe.

Noun

*tävü[1]

  1. lung

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: (dialectal) tävi, tähi
  • Finnish: (obsolete) tävy
  • Livonian: tä’v
  • Veps: tävu
  • Võro: täü, tävv
  • Votic: (Kattila) tävü

References

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

Further reading