Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/hätä

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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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From earlier *šätä, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *sētō (ambush), whence Old English sæt and Old Norse sát.

Noun[edit]

*hätä

  1. emergency
  2. distress, agony

Inflection[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Further reading[edit]

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