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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/mätä

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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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Unknown.

Noun

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*mätä[1]

  1. pus

Adjective

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*mätä[1]

  1. rotten

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Estonian: mäda
  • Finnish: mätä
  • Ingrian: mätä
  • Võro: mädä
  • Votic: mätä

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*mätä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎[1] (in Finnish)

Further reading

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