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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/käsnä

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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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Unknown. The cluster *sn is rare and does not appear to have been allowed in Proto-Uralic, so possibly an obscured *-na derivative from an unidentified root (? *käse-) or a borrowing from an unidentified source.

Noun

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*käsnä[1]

  1. callus

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Estonian: käsn
  • Finnish: känsä, käsnä
  • Karelian: käsnä
  • Veps: käzn
  • Võro: käsn
  • Votic: tšäzne

References

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