Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/küllä
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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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown. Related to Northern Sami galle, either by inheritance or by early borrowing from Finnic into Samic.
A highly speculative etymology (with semantic and phonological issues) has been put forward by Saarikivi (2020) that the word represents a borrowing from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (compare German gültig).[1]
Noun
[edit]*küllä[2]
Adverb
[edit]*küllä[2]
- An intensifier corresponding to English do, as in "I did do that".
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Saarikivi, Janne. Kyllä kiitos: Muutaman yleisen sanan etymologiasta (kyllä, kiittää, kirja, vero ynnä muuta pientä) (2020). in мас сымыӈ нэкве вортур этпост самын патум: Scripta miscellanea in honorem Ulla-Maija Forsberg. pp. 272—283. Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*küllä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary][1] (in Finnish)
Further reading
[edit]- “küll”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “kyllä”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The Origin of Finnish Words][2] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN