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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/saira
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Proto-Finnic
Etymology
From Proto-Finno-Permic *śajȣrᴈ.
Noun
*saira
- nit (egg of a louse)
Descendants
From *saire-:
- Estonian: saere
From *sairut:
- Veps: (Southern) sairud
From *sairava > *saivara, *saivar(e):
- Finnish: saivare, saivar, (dialectal) saivara, saivari
- Ingrian: saivar
- Karelian: saivar
- ⇒ Livvi: čaivoi
- Ludian: saivar
- Veps: saivar'
- Votic: saivõr, saivõrõ
Further reading
- Entry #1581 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.
- Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “saivar”, 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