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Reconstruction:Proto-Samic/viepsēs

This Proto-Samic 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-Samic

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Norse [script needed] (*hwepsaz) (whence Danish hveps, Old Norse hvefs), from Proto-Germanic [Term?].[1]

Noun

*viepsēs

  1. wasp

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants
  • Western Samic:
    • Southern Sami: veapsa
    • Ume Sami:
    • Pite Sami: viepses
    • Lule Sami: viepses
    • Northern Sami: vievssis
  • Eastern Samic:
    • Inari Sami: veepsis
    • Skolt Sami: viẹʹpses
    • Kildin Sami: вязвэшш (v’azvešš)
    • Skolt Sami: veažvas

Further reading
  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

References
  1. Piha, Minerva. 2019. “Combining Proto-Scandinavian Loanword Strata in South Saami With the Early Iron Age Archaeological Material of Jämtland and Dalarna, Sweden”. Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 2018 (64):118–233.
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