Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kevät

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-Uralic *keŋä (spring, summer). Cognate with Eastern Mari кеҥеж (keŋež, summer) and Western Mari кӓнгӹж (kängÿž, summer). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. suffix

Noun

*kevät[1]

  1. spring (season)

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: kevad
  • Finnish: kevät
  • Ingrian: kevät
  • Karelian:
  • Livonian:
    • Courland Livonian: kievād
    • Vidzeme Livonian: ķävad
  • Livvi: kevät
  • Ludian: keväz, keväd
  • Veps: keväz'
  • Võro: kevväi
  • Votic: tševäd

References

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