Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/näppä

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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Sound-symbolic

Noun

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*näppä

  1. pimple

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Estonian: (dialectal) näpik
  • Finnish: näppy
  • Ingrian: näpykkä
  • Karelian:
  • Livonian: ņäpā
  • Votic: napukkõ

Further reading

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  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “näppy”, 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