Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/heledä

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

According to EES, from a sound-symbolic root,[1] with the suffix *-ëda.

Adjective

*heledä[2]

  1. bright
  2. light

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: hele
  • Finnish: heleä
  • Ingrian: helliä
  • Karelian: helie
  • Livonian: õ’ldzi
  • Livvi: helei
  • Ludian: heleäd pl
  • Veps: heled
  • Võro: helle
  • Votic: elliä

References

  1. ^ hele”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  2. ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–), “*heledä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎[1] (in Finnish)