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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/täpärä

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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. Possibly borrowed from Proto-Norse [Term?] (whence Icelandic tæpur).

Adjective

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*täpärä[1]

  1. close, narrow

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Estonian: täbar
  • Finnish: täpärä
  • Karelian:
  • Võro: täpär'

References

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

Further reading

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  • täbar”, 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), “täpärä”, 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