Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/hurma

Etymology
origin. The Estonian reflex has been compared with words in Samic and Mordvinic (e.g. 🇨🇬) that would, however, require h- as attested in Northern Finnic to be secondary. Contamination from may be possible.

EVE suggests that the word could be a derivation from, thus originally meaning "humming, whirring", with a later possible semantic shift to "whirl, vortex". This would make the Livonian descendant closest to the original meaning. The meaning "blood" would be developed by ellipsis from, while the meaning "ecstasy, excitement, charm" would refer to how such emotions 'make one's head spin'.

Reconstruction
A number of direct descendants and derivatives show a meaning 'blood' or 'wound', usually used in poetic or mythical contexts (the semantically neutral term for 'blood' remains in all Finnic languages), explained as being through the mythical belief in blood carrying a person's mental and spiritual power. Toivonen (1944) suggests this as the primary original meaning.

Noun

 * 1) ? excitement, ecstacy, charm

Descendants

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