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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/räkä

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

Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *hrēką.

Noun

*räkä

  1. snot (mucus)
    Synonym: *nolki

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: röga, (dialectal) räga
  • Finnish: räkä
  • Ingrian: räkä
  • Karelian: räkä, rekä, regä
  • Livonian: gregād
  • Livvi: regä
  • Ludian: regä, rögä
  • Veps: rega
  • Võro: rägä
  • Votic: räkä

Further reading

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