Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/mura-
Proto-Finnic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Uralic *mura.
Noun
edit*mura-
Descendants
edit- Estonian: murakas (< *mura-k'as); (dialectal) muuram (< *mura-mV)
- → Latvian: murene, muraka
- Finnish: muurain (< *mura-in); (dialectal) muurama (< *mura-ma), muura
- Ingrian: muuran, muurain (< *mura-in)
- Karelian: muuroi (< *mur-oi)
- Livvi: muuroi (< *mur-oi)
- Ludian: muuroi (< *mur-oi)
- Veps: murašk, murik, murikeine (< *mura-ska?, *mur-ikka)
- Võro: murahk, murak (< *mura-hka, *mura-kka)
- Votic: muragõ, muragõz (< *mura-ka, *mura-gas)
Further reading
edit- “murakas”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Entry #564 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.