Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/selkedä

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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Unknown, but apparently contains the suffix *-ëda. Related to Proto-Samic *čielkë. Compare *selvä, which may be derived from the same root. Has been compared with Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- as well.

Adjective

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*selkedä[1]

  1. clear

Inflection

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Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*selkedä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎[1] (in Finnish)