Jump to content

Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/rippudak

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Uncertain. LÄGLOS connects Finnish riippua with *riippi, the supposed ancestor of Estonian ribi ("hay basket") and Finnish riippi ("mesh backpack"), for which a Germanic etymology exists. Any connection would however require -ii- to be primary, and those two words only have fragmentary dialectal attestation, suggesting that one is borrowed from the other and/or a more recent Germanic borrowing. Thus it is unlikely that Finnic *rippu- is related to either.

Verb

[edit]

*rippudak (stem *rippu-)[1]

  1. to hang (to be suspended)

Inflection

[edit]

Descendants

[edit]

References

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

Further reading

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