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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kähärä

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

Sound-symbolic.

Adjective

*kähärä

  1. curly, frizzy

Noun

*kähärä

  1. curl

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: kähar
  • Finnish: kähärä
  • Ingrian: kähheerä
  • Karelian: kähärä, käherä
  • Livvi: kähär
  • Votic: (Kattila) tšäihärä

Further reading

  • kähar”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
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