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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/käki

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This Proto-Finnic entry contains reconstructed terms 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

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Etymology

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Cognate with Proto-Samic *kiekë, either borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (whence Latvian dzeguze, Lithuanian gegė, gegužė), or alternatively, of onomatopoeic origin.

Noun

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*käki[1]

  1. cuckoo (bird)

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Estonian: (dialectal) kägi
  • Finnish: käki
  • Ingrian: käki
  • Karelian:
  • Livonian:
  • Livvi: (rare) kägi
  • Ludian: kägi
  • Veps: kägi

From *käkoi (derived with *-oi):

References

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  1. ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*käki”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎[1] (in Finnish)

Further reading

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  • kägu”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012