Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kerjät'äk

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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 Proto-Finno-Ugric *kerjä- (to request) +‎ *-t'ak. Cognate with Hungarian kér, Komi-Permyak корны (korny) and Udmurt курыны (kuryny).

Verb

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*kerjät'äk (stem *kerjädä-)[1]

  1. to beg

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Estonian: kerjama/kerjata
  • Finnish: kerjätä
  • Livonian: kerrõ

References

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

Further reading

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