Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/tümedä

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

Probably a variant of *tumëda. Contains the suffix *-edä.

Adjective

*tümedä[1]

  1. dark, dim, gloomy
    Synonyms: *hämärä, *pimedä, *tumëda

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: (dialectal) tüme
  • Finnish: (dialectal) tymeä
  • Võro: tümme

References

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

Further reading

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