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Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/hämärä

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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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From earlier *šämä, possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *sēmaz (whence Old Norse sámr) and extended with ‎ *-rä.

Noun

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*hämärä[1]

  1. twilight, dusk

Adjective

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*hämärä

  1. dim, dusky, gloomy, dark

Inflection

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Descendants

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References

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

Further reading

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