Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/käppä

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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From Proto-Finno-Permic *käppä.

Noun

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*käppä

  1. paw

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Estonian: käpp
  • Finnish: (dialectal or archaic) käppä
  • Karelian: käppä, käppy, käppi
  • Livonian: käpā
  • Ludian: käpät
  • Võro: käpp

Further reading

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  • käpp”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Entry #1284 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.