Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/näälä

Etymology
Obscure. Sometimes connected with the Uralic root *naxe- (which gave ), perhaps as a front-vowel harmonic derivative *näxlä < *näxe-lä, but this is highly uncertain. Some kind of Uralic compound *naxe-läwä (for *läwä "(younger) male relative", see 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬) might have reduced to *näxlä, if the complete loss of the last syllable could be explained.

Noun

 * 1)  brother-in-law (one's wife's brother)