Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/tarttudak

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

Of sound-symbolic origin (compare Finnish tärttyä), with the suffix +‎ *-udak. Compare also Finnish tarrata (to adhere; to grab). According to UEW, possibly from Proto-Finno-Ugric *tarttɜ- (to cling to, stick to, get caught), whence Hungarian tart, but the consensus of modern scholarship is that Proto-Uralic did not allow such consonant clusters.

Verb edit

*tarttudak (stem *tarttu-)

  1. to stick, to adhere
  2. to grab, to seize

Inflection edit

Descendants edit

References edit

  • Entry #1029 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “tarttua”, 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