Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/peksädäk

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

From Proto-Uralic *peksä-; irregularly lengthened to *peeksä- in Northern Finnic. An e-stem variant (pseudo-Proto-Finnic *peekse- : *peestäk) has furthermore been attested from Finnish and Karelian.

Verb edit

*peksädäk (stem *peksä-)

  1. to beat

Inflection edit

Descendants edit

  • Estonian: peksma (peksta)
  • Livonian: pieksõ
  • Votic: (Velikkä) peksää

From *peeksädäk:

From ? *peestäk:

References edit

  • peksma”, 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), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words]‎[1] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN