Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/setä

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 Proto-Uralic *śečä.

Noun

*setä[1]

  1. paternal uncle

Inflection

Coordinate terms

Descendants

  • Estonian: sedi
  • Finnish: setä
  • Ingrian: setä

From derived *sedoit'ar:

  • Karelian:
    • North Karelian: ševotar (female cousin)
    • South Karelian: ševotar (female cousin), (dialectal) ševoitar
  • Ludian: sevoittareksed (group of cousins)
  • Livvi: sevoitar (cousin)

From derived *sedukkoi ~ *sedukku:

  • Ingrian: seukko (cousin), seukkoi
  • Karelian:
    • North Karelian: šeukku ((second) cousin)
    • South Karelian: šeukku ((second) cousin)
  • Livvi: seukku (cousin)

References

  1. ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–), “*setä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎[1] (in Finnish)
  • Erkki Itkonen, Ulla-Maija Kulonen, editors (1992–2000), 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