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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kärnä

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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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Possibly from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kärnä. Alternatively, a front vowel variant of *karna.

Noun

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*kärnä[1]

  1. tree bark
  2. scab
    Synonym: *rupi

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Estonian: kärn
  • Finnish: (dialectal) kärnä
  • Ingrian: kärnä
  • Veps: kärnak
  • Võro: kärn
  • Votic: tšärnä

References

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

Further reading

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  • kärn”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Entry #268 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.