Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/peeni

Etymology
urj-fin-pro. Borrowing from, as once proposed, is not possible due to semantic and phonetic issues (it, however, was probably borrowed into Finnic as ). If the Finnic word goes back to earlier, it could be related to (akin to , whence e.g. ), through a development like "to grind (fine)" > "fine" > "small", although this kind of zero derivation of an adjective from a verb has no known parallels.

Adjective

 * 1) little, small
 * 2) fine