Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/hämärä

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 earlier *šämä, possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *sēmaz (whence Old Norse sámr) and extended with +‎ *-rä.

Noun edit

*hämärä[1]

  1. twilight, dusk

Adjective edit

*hämärä

  1. dim, dusky, gloomy, dark

Inflection edit

Descendants edit

References edit

  1. ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*hämärä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto[1] (in Finnish)

Further reading edit

  • hämar”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012