sǟl

Livonian

Alternative forms

sǟ’lõ, sǟ’lõz

Etymology

From an old adessive form (*sigällä) of se. Compare Finnish siellä. According to Kallio (2020), the Livonian form would regularly be *sigāl, and he theorizes that the Livonian form is from South Estonian (Võro sääl), in turn from Estonian seal.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsæːˀl/, [ˈsæːˀl]

Adverb

sǟ’l

(locative) there

Related terms

References

^ Kallio, Petri. Se (2020). in мас сымыӈ нэ̄кве во̄ртур э̄тпост самын патум: Scripta miscellanea in honorem Ulla-Maija Forsberg. pp. 171—183. Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. p. 175

Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “sǟ’l”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

[1] Kallio, Petri. Se (2020). in мас сымыӈ нэ̄кве во̄ртур э̄тпост самын патум: Scripta miscellanea in honorem Ulla-Maija Forsberg. pp. 171—183. Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. p. 175

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