Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/tähti

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-Finno-Permic *täštä. Cognate with Kildin Sami та̄ссьт (tāss’t), Erzya теште (ťešťe) and Eastern Mari тиште (tište). According to Zhivlov (2015), possibly ultimately a substrate borrowing from the pre-Uralic languages of the Volga.[1]

Noun edit

*tähti

  1. star
  2. sign, mark, spot

Inflection edit

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

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

References edit

  1. ^ М. А. Zhivlov. Неиндоевропейский субстрат в финно-волжских языках (2015).