Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/pästäk

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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[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Uncertain. Possibly borrowed from Proto-Slavic *běžati[1] or *běťi (stem *běže-), both requiring the long *-ää- to be original. According to Koivulehto & Kallio (2023), a long vowel may be primary in *päästäk (*pääse-) and a short vowel in *pästädäk (*pästä-; compare *noustak (*nousë-) ~ *nostadak (*nosta-)), with analogous levelling in both directions; a competing Slavic etymology (< *spěšiti) is also mentioned.[2] Has also sometimes been considered to be derived from *pää, but the suffix that would have been used for derivation is not entirely clear.

Noun[edit]

*pästäk (stem *päse-)[3]

  1. to get free, get loose
  2. to escape, flee
  3. to get to a place, reach a place
  4. to be rescued or saved

Inflection[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

*pästäk

  • Livonian: päzzõ
  • Võro: päsemä/päsedäq

*päästäk

References[edit]

  1. ^ Saarikivi, Janne. Kyllä kiitos: Muutaman yleisen sanan etymologiasta (kyllä, kiittää, kirja, vero ynnä muuta pientä) (2020). in мас сымыӈ нэ‌кве во‌ртур э‌тпост самын патум: Scripta miscellanea in honorem Ulla-Maija Forsberg. Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. p. 278
  2. ^ Koivulehto, Jorma, Kallio, Petri (2023) “Lisiä slaavilais-itämerensuomalaisiin lainakosketuksiin”, in Holopainen, Sampsa, Kim, Jeongdo, Metsäranta, Niklas, editors, Elämä ja etymologia: Janne Saarikiven 50-vuotisjuhlakirja, →ISBN, pages 204–207
  3. ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*pä(ä)se-”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto[1] (in Finnish)

Further reading[edit]

  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “päästä”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
  • pääsema”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012