sēmḑa

Derived from Proto-Finnic *seemi (“sip, gulp”) (? *seemi-ttä). Vääri lists sēmd̦a along with salāndõ (“to steal”) and umārz (“apple”) as examples of terms whose cognates cannot be found in other (Baltic) Finnic languages but can be found in Volga Finnic languages (Mari, Mordvinic).^[1] This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. suffix?

• IPA^(key): /ˈseːmɟɑ/, [ˈseːmɟɑ]

sēmḑa

1. milk
   • 2012–2013, “sēmḑa”, in Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits, editors, Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[1], Tartu, Riga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra:

     ta paņ sēmd̦a apāndõm

     he put milk to sour

   • 2012–2013, “sēmḑa”, in Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits, editors, Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[2], Tartu, Riga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra:

     tämmõn um vel jemā sēmd̦a kūora tagān

     he still has wet behind the ears

     (literally, “he still has mother's milk behind ears”)

   • 2012–2013, “sēmḑa”, in Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits, editors, Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[3], Tartu, Riga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra:

     poțā um jemīņ seļļi, kus semd̦i valāb sizzõl

     the pot is rather of the type that you pour milk inside of

   • 2012–2013, “sēmḑa”, in Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits, editors, Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[4], Tartu, Riga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra:

     tämmõn at ūld vel jemā sēmd̦aks

     he still has wet behind the ears

     (literally, “his lips are still with mother's milk”)

• Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “sēmḑa”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[5] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra