Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/minijä

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 *mińä. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. elaborate on phonetic development; irregular to avoid homonymy with *minä "1sg pronoun"?

Noun

*minijä[1]

  1. daughter-in-law

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: minia
  • Finnish: miniä
  • Ingrian: minjä, minja; minni
  • Karelian: min'n'a
  • Livonian: mīņa
  • Veps: minď
  • Võro: minnij
  • Votic: minʹdʹõ

References

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