Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/säkä

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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From Proto-Finno-Ugric *śäkä.

Noun

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*säkä

  1. wels catfish (Silurus glanis)

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Estonian: säga
  • Finnish: säkiä, (dialectal) säkä
  • Võro: sägä

Further reading

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  • säga”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Entry #945 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.