Followup anti-etymology: ? *täCə ‘birch bark covering’

Posted on Sat 2020-07-18 by sansdomino — 5 Comments

In the last post I parenthetically mentioned a PU root “*täsə (UEW: *tisɜ)” ‘birch bark covering for a teepee’. This has been previously reconstructed from very scanty evidence: Komi /tis(k)a/, Forest Nenets /tʲēt/ ([tɕi͡et]), Kamassian [tʰɤʔ]. The latter two point…

Probably not a valid etymology: *čäččä ‘birch bark’

Posted on Wed 2020-07-15 by sansdomino — 4 Comments

The Proto-Finnic word for ‘birch bark’ was *toohi (consonant stem: *toohë-, partitive *tooh-ta), continued directly in Finnish and Karelian tuohi, Veps toh’. The southern Finnic languages mainly show derivatives: Votic toho, standard Estonian toht(u-), Võro tohk(o-), Livonian tū’oigõz (however EES…

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Followup anti-etymology: ? *täCə ‘birch bark covering’

Probably not a valid etymology: *čäččä ‘birch bark’