Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/sini

Etymology
From (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). Sometimes connected with, whence , , but these words are probably not related.

Earlier often compared also with Iranian terms such as, but this is unlikely to be correct: the possible loan sources or  would not be expected to give a (pre-)Finnic word beginning with *s-. A Slavic origin, from, has also been proposed, but is likewise unlikely due to phonological and chronological issues; the Slavic *-i- would be expected to be reflected as a long *-ii-, and there are no known Slavic borrowings already into West Uralic.

Noun

 * 1) blue