Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/mäntä

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

Borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (whence Latvian mente and Lithuanian mentė).

Noun edit

*mäntä

  1. utensil for stirring food

Inflection edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Estonian: mänd
  • Finnish: mäntä
  • Votic: mänte

Further reading edit

  • mänd”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012