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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kesä

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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-Permic *kesä (summer) (possibly a loanword from Indo-European; see it for more). Cognate with Proto-Samic *keasē, Erzya кизэ (kize) and Moksha киза (kiza, summer, year).

Noun

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*kesä[1]

  1. summer
    Synonym: *suvi
  2. fallow

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Estonian: kesa
  • Finnish: kesä
  • Ingrian: kesä
  • Karelian:
  • Livvi: kezä
  • Ludian: kezä
  • Veps: keza
  • Võro: kesä
  • Votic: tšesä

References

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

Further reading

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