Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/mürkkü

Etymology
. Has been compared with and, both assuming Finnic-internal development from earlier  (compare , ). The first comparison suffers from additional phonetic problems, the second from semantic ones. Alternately, Finnic-internal derivation from a root seen in  and  has been suggested, though no suffix  exists. If Finnish dialectal is also related, the immediate derivation would be. Also posited to be borrowed from (cf., ), although this theory is highly unlikely.

Noun

 * 1) poison