Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kürsä

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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 *kürsä, compare Erzya кши (kši), кше (kše) and Moksha кши (kši). Possibly ultimately an early borrowing from Proto-Balto-Slavic *krušā́ˀ.[1]

Noun[edit]

*kürsä

  1. bread

Inflection[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Estonian: kürs, kürss
  • Finnish: kyrsä
  • Karelian: kyrsä, kyrzä
  • Livvi: kyrzy
  • Ludian: kürz
  • Veps: kürz

References[edit]

  1. ^ Koivulehto, Jorma. 2003. Frühe Kontakte zwischen Uralisch und Indogermanisch im nordwestindogermanischen Raum. LangPreEu 279-317

Further reading[edit]

  • Entry #1351 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “kyrsä”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN