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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/siledä

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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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*sile- +‎ *-edä. Related to Proto-Samic *čëlëtēk. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Adjective

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*siledä[1]

  1. smooth

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Estonian: sile
  • Finnish: sileä
  • Ingrian: silliiä
  • Karelian:
  • Livvi: silei
  • Ludian: siled
  • Veps: siled
  • Võro: sille
  • Votic: (Jõgõperä) silliä
  • Proto-Samic: *šëlëtē (see there for further descendants)

References

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

Further reading

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