Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kiledä

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 the same onomatopoeic root as *kilistäk, with the suffix +‎ *-edä.

Adjective

*kiledä[1]

  1. shrill, bright (of a sound or a voice)

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: kile
  • Finnish: (dialectal) kileä
  • Karelian:
    • South Karelian: (dialectal) kilie
  • Livonian: ki’ldzi
  • Livvi: kilei
  • Võro: killõ

References

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

Further reading

  • Erkki Itkonen, Ulla-Maija Kulonen, editors (1992–2000), “kileä”, 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