Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/pähkä

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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 Proto-Finno-Permic *päškɜ.

Noun

*pähkä

  1. nut, hazelnut

Inflection

Descendants

Note that *pähkä is a word that unattested in any modern Finnic languages, and thus, it only survives in affixed variants *pähkäs, *pähkänä, *pähkele, *pähken (oblique *pähkeme-), *pähkenä, *pähkin (oblique *pähkime-), and *pähkinä.

References

  • pähkel”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Entry #1473 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words]‎ (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

Further reading

  • Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*pähke⇒”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎ (in Finnish)