Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/ikäbä

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 *ikä (age, lifetime) +‎ *-bä, perhaps originally along the lines of that takes a long time, that takes forever.

Adjective

*ikäbä

  1. dull, boring, tedious

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: igav
  • Finnish: ikävä
    • Inari Sami: ahheev
  • Ingrian: ikävä
  • Karelian:
    • North Karelian: ikävä
    • South Karelian: igävä
  • Livonian: igāb
  • Livvi: igävy, igäy
  • Ludian: igäu
  • Võro: ikäv
  • Votic: itšäve

Further reading

  • Erkki Itkonen, Ulla-Maija Kulonen, editors (1992–2000), “ikävä”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The Origin of Finnish Words]‎[1] (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