Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kecrä

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 earlier *kečrä, borrowed from early Indo-Iranian *ketstram (whence Sanskrit चात्त्र (cāttra), from *čatstram). The same word has been borrowed also to other Uralic languages: Proto-Samic *kearsē, Erzya шчире (ščire), Moksha кштирь (kštirʹ), Eastern Mari шӱдыр (šüdyr).

Reconstruction

Over the 20th century often reconstructed as *kešträ or *kesträ (compare also *acraga, *icra, *ocra). Reconstruction of this word group with an affricate has been first suggested by Äimä (1921), and is defended by Kallio (2012: 230–231) on the grounds that early Proto-Finnic did not allow clusters of three or more consonants.

Noun

*kecrä

spindle
wheel, flywheel

Synonyms

(wheel): *pöörä, ? *rat'as

Derived terms

*kecrät'äk

Descendants

Estonian: keder
Finnish: kehrä, (Eastern) keträ
Karelian: (Northern) kesrä, (Southern) kezrä
Livonian: kie'ddõr
Livvi: kezry
Ludian: kezr
Veps: kezr

References

Äimä, Frans. 1921. "Lisänen ahrain sanan etymologiaan". — Virittäjä 25: 63–.
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
Kallio, Petri. 2012. "The Prehistoric Germanic Loanword Strata in Finnic." — A Linguistic Map of Prehistoric Northern Europe. Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia 266: 225–238.
Koivulehto, Jorma. 2001. "The earliest contacts between Indo-European and Uralic speakers in the light of lexical loans". — Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European. Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia 242: 235–263.