Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kehkerä

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 *kečkerä, whence Erzya кичкере (kičkeŕe).

Adjective

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*kehkerä

  1. round, convex

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Finnish: (dialectal) kehkerä
  • Veps: kehker, kehkar

Further reading

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  • Entry #1292 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “kehkerä”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN