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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/venät

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

Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *winidaz.

Noun

*venät

  1. Slav

Inflection

Derived terms

  • *venäläinen

Descendants

  • Estonian: vene, Venemaa
  • Finnish: Venäjä, (dialectal) venät, venäh, venää
  • Ingrian: vennää, venät
  • Karelian:
    • North Karelian: veneäh
    • South Karelian: vena, veniäh
  • Livvi: vena
  • Ludian: vena
  • Veps: vena
  • Votic: vennäi, vennä

Further reading

  • vene”, 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), “Venäjä”, 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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