Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/päckä

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

Uncertain, possibly from earlier *päčkä. May be related to Proto-Samic *peackētēk (to cut off) (< Proto-Uralic *pečkä-).

Noun

*päckä[1]

  1. stub, stump (short or small piece of something)

Inflection

Descendants

  • Finnish: pätkä
  • Ingrian: pätkä
  • Karelian:
  • Livvi: pätky

References

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

Further reading

  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “pätkä”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The Origin of Finnish Words]‎[2] (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