Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/occidak

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

Alternative forms

  • *eccidäk

Etymology

Unknown. Has been compared with Erzya вешемс (vešems), Udmurt утчаны (utćany) and Northern Sami ohcat (but at least the last one of these is rather cognate with *udëldak) on one hand and Proto-Germanic [Term?] (compare Old Norse inna) on the other; both of these suffer from issues.

Verb

*occidak (stem *occi-)[1]

  1. to search (for), to look for, to seek

Inflection

Descendants

From *occidak:

  • Estonian: otsima/otsida
  • Livonian: vȯtšõ, (Salaca) otš
  • Võro: ots'ma/otsiq
  • Votic: (Kattila) õttsia

From *eccidäk (from delabialized *ëccidak with fronting?):

References

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

Further reading

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