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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/mät'äs

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

Proto-Uralic *mäkte + *-äs. Cognate with Proto-Samic *miektë.

Noun

*mät'äs

  1. tussock

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: mätas
  • Finnish: mätäs
  • Ingrian: mätäs
  • Karelian: mätäs
  • Livonian: mätāl
  • Livvi: mätäs
  • Ludian: mätäz
  • Veps: mätaz
  • Võro: mätäs
  • Votic: mätäz

Further reading

  • mätas”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Entry #525 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
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