Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/mäihä

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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 earlier *majša / *mäjšä (whence also Proto-Samic *muojsē, from the former). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

*mäihä[1]

  1. cambium (layer of cells in the trunk of trees)

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: mähk
  • Finnish: mäihä
  • Veps: mäjaz, möüväz
  • Võro: mäih
  • Votic: mähä

References

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

Further reading

  • mähk”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012