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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/hähnä

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-Finno-Permic *śäśnä. Cognate with Proto-Samic *čāšnē.

Noun

*hähnä

  1. woodpecker
    Synonym: *tikka

Inflection

Descendants

  • Finnish: (archaic, dialectal) hähnä, häähnä
  • Livonian:
    • Courland Livonian: ē’ņõz
    • Vidzeme Livonian: ēn
  • Võro: hähn

Further reading

  • Entry #1585 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “hähnä”, 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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