Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/veelä

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (whence Latvian vēl and Lithuanian vėl).

Adverb

*veelä

1. still
2. yet

Descendants

• Estonian: veel
• Finnish: vielä
• Ingrian: veel, veelä
• Karelian:
  • North Karelian: vielä
  • South Karelian: vielä
• Livonian: ve’l
• Livvi: vie
• Ludian: vie
• Veps: völ
• Võro: viil
• Votic: veel

Further reading

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