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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/vehnä

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-Permic *wešnä (spelt, wheat), probably borrowed from a substrate language.

Noun

*vehnä

  1. (Northern Finnic) wheat
    Synonym: *nisu

Inflection

Descendants

  • Finnish: vehnä
  • Ingrian: vehnä
    • Votic: vehne
  • Karelian:

Further reading

  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “vehnä”, 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
  • Entry #1707 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
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