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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/küünärä

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

Etymology

Proto-Finno-Ugric *küńä (elbow) + *-rä (diminutive suffix). Cognates include Erzya кенере (keńeŕe), Hungarian könyök and probably Proto-Samic *kërńēlē.

Noun

*küünärä

  1. elbow

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: küünar
  • Finnish: kyynärä
  • Ingrian: kyynärä
  • Karelian: kyynärä
  • Livonian: kīndõr
  • Võro: künnär'
  • Votic: tšüünere

Further reading

  • küünar”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Entry #311 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
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