Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/cööstäk

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

Alternative reconstructions edit

Etymology edit

*cöö- +‎ *-stäk, as per Koivulehto (2009), who proposed that the root can be considered a contracted variant of *cüvä (deep) (compare e.g. *möötä). In the past, considered a derivative of *söödäk (to eat) (which would warrant the earlier reconstruction *sööstäk): the basic meaning would thus be "to plunge, to go deep into smth." rather than, as suggested by Kulonen (2000), "(of water) to eat a path for itself".

Verb edit

*cööstäk (stem *cöökse-)

  1. to push in, to plunge into
  2. to spew, to boil over

Inflection edit

Descendants edit

  • Estonian: sööstma
  • Finnish: syöstä
  • Karelian: syöksie
  • Livonian: zȭöks (to jump, to dance)

References edit

  • Koivulehto, Jorma. 2009. "Etymologisesti hämäriä -(is)tA-johdosverbejä, lainoja ja omapohjaisia". Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja 92, pp. 79–102.
  • sööstma”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), 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