Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/täplä

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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Probably sound-symbolic origin. Cognate with Proto-Samic *tāplē.

Noun

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*täplä

  1. spot, speck

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Estonian: täplik (dotted)
  • Finnish: täplä
  • Karelian:
  • Võro: täpliganõ (dotted)

Further reading

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