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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/täpärä

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

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

Adjective

*täpärä[1]

  1. close, narrow

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: täbar
  • Finnish: täpärä
  • Karelian:
    • North Karelian: täperä
    • South Karelian: täberä
  • Võro: täpär'

References

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

Further reading

  • 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] (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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