Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/hämärä

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 earlier *šämä, possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *sēmaz (whence Old Norse sámr) and extended with +‎ *-rä.

Noun

*hämärä[1]

  1. twilight, dusk
  2. fog, mist
    Synonyms: *häkä, *sumu, *utu

Adjective

*hämärä

  1. dim, dusky, gloomy, dark

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: hämar
  • Finnish: hämärä
  • Ingrian: hämärä
  • Karelian:
  • Livonian: ämār
  • Ludian: hämär
  • Veps: hämär
  • Võro: hämmär
  • Votic: (Mati, Kattila) ämärä

From *hämo(i) (+ *-o ~ *-oi):

  • Estonian: hämu
  • Finnish: (dialectal, rare) hämö
  • Võro: hämo

From *hämü (+ *-ü):

References

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

Further reading

  • hämar”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012