Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/jäkälä

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

Proto-Finno-Permic *jäkä +‎ *-lä. Cognate with Proto-Samic *jeakēl.

Noun

*jäkälä[1]

  1. lichen

Inflection

Descendants

  • Finnish: jäkälä
  • Karelian:
    • North Karelian: jäkälä
    • South Karelian: jägälä
  • Livvi: jägäl
  • Ludian: d'ägäl
  • ? Russian: ягель (jagelʹ)

References

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

Further reading