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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/muistadak

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 *muja- (to touch, to feel (by hand)) + *-istadak

Verb

*muistadak (stem *muista-)[1]

  1. to understand
  2. to remember

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: mõistma/mõista
  • Finnish: muistaa
  • Ingrian: muistaa
  • Karelian:
  • Livonian: mȯistõ
  • Livvi: mustua
  • Ludian: muštada
  • Veps: muštta
  • Võro: mõistma/mõistaq
  • Votic: mõissaa (Mati)
  • Proto-Samic: *muštētēk (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*muista-”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto (in Finnish)

Further reading

  • mõistma”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Entry #558 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
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