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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/piimä

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-Ugric *pejmä, possibly borrowed from Proto-Iranian *páyHmā (milk), or inherited from Proto-Uralic *pije-mä, from *pije- (to milk), compare Hungarian fej (to milk).

Noun

*piimä

  1. milk
    Synonym: *maito

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: piim
  • Finnish: piimä (sour milk)
  • Võro: piim
  • Votic: piime

Further reading

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