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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/sööstäk

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

*söö- + *-stäk. Koivulehto (2009) proposes that the root can be considered a contracted variant of *süvä (deep) (compare e.g. *möötä) instead of *söödäk (to eat): the basic meaning would thus be "to plunge, to go deep into smth." rather than, as suggested by Kulonen (2000), "(of water) to eat a path for itself".

Verb

*sööstäk

  1. to push in, to plunge into
  2. to spew, to boil over

Inflection

Descendants

  • Estonian: sööstmä
  • Finnish: syöstä
  • Karelian: syöksie
  • Livonian: zȭöks (to jump, to dance)

References

  • Koivulehto, Jorma. 2009. "Etymologisesti hämäriä -(is)tA-johdosverbejä, lainoja ja omapohjaisia". Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja 92, pp. 79–102.
  • sööstmä in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN
  • Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000) Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
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