Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/setä

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 *śečä.

Noun

*setä[1]

  1. paternal uncle

Inflection

Coordinate terms

Descendants

  • Estonian: sedi
  • Finnish: setä
  • Ingrian: setä
  • Eastern Finnic: → *sedoit'ar
    • Karelian: sevoitar (female cousin)
    • Ludian: sevoittareksed (group of cousins)

References

  1. ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*setä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎[1] (in Finnish)
  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), 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