Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/sää

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 1

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *säŋe.

Noun

*sää[1]

  1. weather

Inflection

Descendants

  • Finnish: sää
  • Ingrian: sää
  • Karelian:
  • Ludian: siä
  • Veps:
  • Votic: sää

Etymology 2

Either from Proto-Finno-Permic *säŋä (thread, yarn) (whence Erzya сэль (sëľ)), or Proto-Finno-Ugric *śäŋe.

Noun

*sää

  1. thread, strand, fiber

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Finnish: (obsolete) sää

References

  1. ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*sää”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎[1] (in Finnish)