Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/sää

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 1

    From Proto-Finno-Ugric *säŋe.

    Noun

    *sää[1]

    1. weather
    Inflection
    Descendants
    • Finnish: sää
    • Ingrian: sää
    • Karelian:
    • Livvi: siä
    • Ludian: siä
    • Veps:
    • Votic: sää

    Etymology 2

      Either from Proto-Finno-Permic *säŋä (thread, yarn) (whence Erzya сэль (sëľ)), or Proto-Finno-Ugric *śäŋe.

      Noun

      *sää

      1. thread, strand, fiber
      Inflection
      Derived terms
      Descendants
      • Finnish: (obsolete) sää

      References

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