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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/ektä

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

Related to Proto-Samic [Term?] (compare Northern Sami ikte, which may be a Finnic loan. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

*ektä

  1. evening

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: eha, (dialectal) õha
  • Finnish: (dialectal) ehtä, ehta
  • Karelian: ehtä
  • Livvi: ehty
  • Ludian: eht
  • Veps: eht

Further reading

  • eha”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “ehtä”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
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