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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/küllä
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Proto-Finnic
Etymology
Unknown. Related to Northern Sami galle, either by inheritance or by early borrowing from Finnic into Samic.
A highly speculative etymology (with semantic and phonological issues) has been put forward by Saarikivi (2020) that the word represents a borrowing from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (compare German gültig).[1]
Noun
*küllä
- abundance
Adverb
*küllä
- An intensifier corresponding to English do, as in "I did do that".
Descendants
- Estonian: küll
- Finnish: kyllä
- ⇒ Ingrian: kyllääst
- Karelian: kyllä
- Livonian: ki’l
- ⇒ Veps: külläine
- Votic: küll
Further reading
- küll in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN
- Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “kyllä”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words] (in Finnish), [note: linked online version also includes some other etymological sources], Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
References
- Saarikivi, Janne. Kyllä kiitos: Muutaman yleisen sanan etymologiasta (kyllä, kiittää, kirja, vero ynnä muuta pientä) (2020). in мас сымыӈ нэкве вортур этпост самын патум: Scripta miscellanea in honorem Ulla-Maija Forsberg. pp. 272—283. Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura