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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kiredä

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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 *kirɜ +‎ *-edä. Cognate with Proto-Samic *kërës.

Adjective

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*kiredä[1]

  1. hard, stiff
  2. tight, taut

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Estonian: (dialectal) kire
  • Finnish: kireä
  • Livvi: kirei
  • >? Võro: kire

References

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

Further reading

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  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “kireä”, 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
  • Entry #1318 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.