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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/räntä

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

Possibly borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (whence Lithuanian drengti).

Noun

*räntä

  1. sleet (precipitation of rain–snow mixture)

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: ränd
  • Finnish: räntä
  • Ingrian: ränne (< *rändeh)
  • Karelian:
    • North Karelian: räntä
    • South Karelian: rändä
  • Livvi: rändy
  • Ludian: ränd
  • Veps: ränd
  • Votic: ränne, ränte (< *rändeh)

Further reading

  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “räntä”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
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