Reconstruction:Proto-Samic/viepsēs

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This Proto-Samic 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-Samic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Proto-Norse [script needed] (*hwepsaz) (whence Danish hveps, Old Norse hvefs), from Proto-Germanic [Term?].[1]

Noun[edit]

*viepsēs

  1. wasp

Inflection[edit]

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants[edit]

  • Western Samic:
    • Southern Sami: veapsa
    • Ume Sami:
    • Pite Sami: viepses
    • Lule Sami: viepses
    • Northern Sami: vievssis
  • Eastern Samic:

Further reading[edit]

  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

References[edit]

  1. ^ Piha, Minerva. 2019. “Combining Proto-Scandinavian Loanword Strata in South Saami With the Early Iron Age Archaeological Material of Jämtland and Dalarna, Sweden”. Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 2018 (64):118–233.