Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/lehmä

Etymology
From, possibly borrowed from a language  (the Pre-West Uralic agricultural substrate). Has also been hypothetized to be associated with the phonetically quite similar, through a sense development "soft" > "tame" > "domestic animal". Alternately, Katz (2003) speculates on borrowing from pre-Indo-Iranian (compare 🇨🇬, ), through the meaning "animal marked as owned".

Noun

 * 1) cow

Descendants

 * North Karelian:
 * South Karelian:
 * Courland Livonian:
 * Vidzeme Livonian:
 * North Karelian:
 * South Karelian:
 * Courland Livonian:
 * Vidzeme Livonian:
 * Vidzeme Livonian: