Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/künä

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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]

Possibly from Proto-Finno-Permic *küńä.

Noun[edit]

*künä

  1. trough
    Synonym: *aldas, *kaukalo, *ruuhi
  2. quill, hollow shaft (lower shaft of a feather)

Inflection[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Estonian: küna
  • Finnish: kynä
  • Karelian: kynä
  • Livonian: kinā
  • Livvi: kynä
  • Ludian: künä

Further reading[edit]

  • küna”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Entry #1314 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.