Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/jüvä

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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]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Finno-Permic *jewä (whence also the variant *jivä), borrowed from an Indo-European language (compare Sanskrit यव (yava, grain, cereal)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yéwos.

Noun[edit]

*jüvä

  1. grain

Inflection[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Finnish: jyvä
  • Ingrian: jyvä
  • Karelian: jyvä
  • Livvi: jyvä
  • Ludian: düvä
  • Veps: jüvä
  • Võro: jüvä

From *jivä > *ivä:

Further reading[edit]

  • iva”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Entry #1245 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.