Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/rähmä

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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

Sound-symbolic.

Noun

*rähmä[1]

  1. rheum, sleep (substance found in the corner of the eye)

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: rähm
  • Finnish: rähmä
  • Ingrian: räämy (possibly borrowed)
  • Karelian: rähmä
  • Livvi: rähmy
  • Ludian: riäžme

References

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

Further reading

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