Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/hauki

Etymology
From earlier. Has been considered a borrowing from early (from which late ), but now this is considered untenable for phonetic reasons, and the Finnic and Slavic words might instead have a common  origin.

Noun

 * 1) pike fish

Inflection
The descendants disagree on the inflection. Estonian, Votic, North Karelian, Livvi, and Ludian have an i-stem paradigm, while the remaining ones an e-stem.

Descendants

 * North Karelian:
 * South Karelian:
 * North Karelian:
 * South Karelian:
 * North Karelian:
 * South Karelian: