Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/näälä

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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Obscure. Sometimes connected with the Uralic root *naxe- (which gave *nainën), perhaps as a front-vowel harmonic derivative *näxlä < *näxe-lä, but this is highly uncertain. Some kind of Uralic compound *naxe-läwä (for *läwä "(younger) male relative", see Northern Sami lávve, Eastern Khanty [script needed] (ĺö̭γ)) might have reduced to *näxlä, if the complete loss of the last syllable could be explained.

Noun

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*näälä

  1. brother-in-law (one's wife's brother)

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Estonian: nääl
  • Finnish: näälä (rare)
  • Ingrian: näälä
  • Karelian: neälä
  • Livvi: niäly
  • Votic: nääle

Further reading

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