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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/küllä

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

Unknown. Related to Northern Sami galle, either by inheritance or by early borrowing from Finnic into Samic.

A highly speculative etymology (with semantic and phonological issues) has been put forward by Saarikivi (2020) that the word represents a borrowing from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (compare German gültig).[1]

Noun

*küllä

  1. abundance

Adverb

*küllä

  1. An intensifier corresponding to English do, as in "I did do that".

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Estonian: küll
  • Finnish: kyllä
  • Ingrian: kyl
  • Karelian:
  • Livonian: ki’l
  • Votic: küll

Further reading
  • “küll”, 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), “kyllä”, 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

References
  1. Saarikivi, Janne. Kyllä kiitos: Muutaman yleisen sanan etymologiasta (kyllä, kiittää, kirja, vero ynnä muuta pientä) (2020). in мас сымыӈ нэ‌кве во‌ртур э‌тпост самын патум: Scripta miscellanea in honorem Ulla-Maija Forsberg. pp. 272—283. Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura
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