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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/ilma

This Proto-Finnic entry contains reconstructed words 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

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *ilma. The old religious sense "heaven" was mainly lost (save for the theonym *Ilmari), replaced by the Indo-European loanword *taivas.

Noun

*ilma

  1. air
  2. sky
  3. weather

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

  • ilm in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN
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