Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/tihedä

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

*tihe- +‎ *-edä; further etymology unknown. Possibly akin to Northern Sami daškat, but the two words cannot be regular cognates, and Proto-Finnic *ti- is irregular for inherited words.

Adjective

*tihedä[1]

  1. dense, thick

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: tihe
  • Finnish: tiheä
  • Ingrian: tihhiä
  • Karelian: tihie
  • Livvi: tihei
  • Ludian: tihed
  • Veps: tihed
  • Võro: tihhe

References

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

Further reading

  • tihe”, 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), “tiheä”, 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