Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kusa-
Proto-Finnic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finno-Permic *kusa.
Noun edit
*kusa-
Descendants edit
- Estonian: kusla- (in compound: kuslapuu) (< *kus-la)
- Finnish: kuusama (< *kusa-ma); (dialectal) kuusain (< *kusa-in)
- → Votic: (Kattila) kuusama
- Ingrian: kuusan (< *kusa-in)
- Karelian:
- Livvi: kuuzain (< *kusa-in)
- Ludian: kuudžain (< *kusa-in)
- Võro: kusla- (in compound: kuslapuu) (< *kus-la)
Further reading edit
- “kusla-”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Entry #1346 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.