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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/äredä

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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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From sound-symbolic root +‎ *-edä.

Adjective

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*äredä[1]

  1. grumpy, irascible

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Estonian: ärev, (dialectal) äre
  • Finnish: äreä
  • Karelian: ärie
  • Livonian: ärī
  • Livvi: ärei
  • Veps: äred

References

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

Further reading

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