Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/häntä

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

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Etymology

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Unknown. According to a now obsolete[1] theory, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *čänčä (back).

Noun

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*häntä

  1. tail (of an animal)

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Estonian: händ
  • Finnish: häntä
  • Ingrian: häntä
  • Karelian:
  • Livonian: ǟnda
  • Livvi: händy
  • Ludian: händ
  • Veps: händ
  • Võro: hand
  • Votic: änte

References

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  1. ^ Aikio, Ante: Studies in Uralic Etymology IV: Ob-Ugric Etymologies Linguistica Uralica 51:1, 2015 [1]
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