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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/mähkidäk

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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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Borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (whence Latvian mežģīt, Lithuanian megzti).

Verb

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*mähkidäk (stem *mähki-)[1]

  1. to entwine, to wrap

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Estonian: mähkima/mähkida
  • Finnish: (dialectal, obsolete) mähkiä
  • Veps: mähkta
  • Võro: mähk'mä/mähkiq

References

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

Further reading

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  • mähkima”, 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), “mähkiä”, 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