Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/vehnä

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 Proto-Finno-Permic *wešnä (spelt, wheat), probably borrowed from a substrate language.

Noun edit

*vehnä

  1. (Northern Finnic) wheat
    Synonym: *nisu

Inflection edit

Descendants edit

  • Finnish: vehnä
  • Ingrian: vehnä
  • Karelian:

Further reading edit

  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “vehnä”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
  • Entry #1707 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.