Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/tühjä

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 earlier *tüšjä, borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (whence Latvian tukšs, Lithuanian tuščias).

Adjective edit

*tühjä[1]

  1. empty

Inflection edit

Descendants edit

  • Estonian: tühi
  • Finnish: tyhjä
  • Ingrian: tyhjä
  • Karelian:
  • Livonian: (Courland) tijā, (Salaca) tüä
  • Livvi: tyhjy
  • Ludian: tühd'
  • Veps: tühj
  • Võro: tühi
  • Votic: tühje
  • Proto-Samic: *tuššē (see there for further descendants)

References edit

  1. ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*tühjä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto[1] (in Finnish)

Further reading edit

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