Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/rikedä

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 root with the suffix +‎ *-edä. Cognate with Proto-Samic *rëkëtē (whence Northern Sami rahkat), suggesting earlier *riketä.

Adjective

*rikedä[1]

  1. thick, dense (of a thicket, forest, etc.)

Inflection

Descendants

  • Finnish: (dialectal, rare) rikeä
  • Karelian:
    • South Karelian: rigie
  • Livvi: rigei

References

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