sǟl

Livonian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From an old adessive form (*sigällä) of se. Compare Finnish siellä. According to Kallio (2020), the Livonian form would regularly be *sigāl, and he theorizes that the Livonian form is from South Estonian (Võro sääl), in turn from Estonian seal.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsæːˀl/, [ˈsæːˀl]

Adverb

sǟ’l

  1. (locative) there

References

  1. ^ Kallio, Petri. Se (2020). in мас сымыӈ нэ̄кве во̄ртур э̄тпост самын патум: Scripta miscellanea in honorem Ulla-Maija Forsberg. pp. 171—183. Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. p. 175
  • Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “sǟ’l”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎[1] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra
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