Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/teetädäk

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

Derived from the noun *tee (road, way) +‎ *-tädäk. The verb must have originally meant "to know the way".

Verb

*teetädäk (stem *teetä-)[1]

  1. to know

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Estonian: teadma/teada
  • Finnish: tietää
  • Ingrian: tiitää
  • Karelian:
    • North Karelian: tietiä
    • South Karelian: tiediä
  • Livonian: tied
  • Livvi: tiediä
  • Ludian: tieta
  • Veps: teta
  • Võro: tiidmä/teedäq
  • Votic: täätä
  • Proto-Samic: *tietētēk

References

  1. ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*tee-tä-”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎[1] (in Finnish)
  • teadma”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), 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