Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/leepedä

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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Probably from the same root as *leevä +‎ *-edä.

Adjective

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*leepedä

  1. mild, gentle

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Estonian: leebe
  • Finnish: liepeä
  • Ingrian: leepeä
  • Karelian:
  • Livonian: līebdõ

Further reading

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  • leebe”, 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), “liepeä”, 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