Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/leütädäk

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

Possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *hleutaną (to obtain, acquire), or already from earlier Northwest Indo-European *kleuda-. As also in e.g. *keühä and *peütä, adherence to vowel harmony indicates an early date of loaning.

The word has earlier been compared with Hungarian lel (to find), and their common ancestor could be reconstructed as *lewdä-. However, an absense of cognates in all other Uralic languages leaves this etymology less certain.

Verb edit

*leütädäk (stem *leütä-)

  1. to find, to discover

Inflection edit

Descendants edit

References edit

  • 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
  • leidma”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Schalin, Johan. 2004. "Itämerensuomalaisen *leütä-vartalon lainaperäisyys" ('The loan origin of the Finnic stem *leütä-'). Virittäjä 1/2004, pp. 24–33.