Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Requests for Finnish etymologies/reply (6)

I usually create Proto-Finnic pages if I feel confident enough that the term comes from Proto-Finnic. That means that it has to have attestations in at least the North and South Finnic groups, preferably the less standardised varieties. Finnish + Võro + Veps is an excellent distribution, Votic is also very good. Finnish + Karelian + Veps is probably too dubious, as is North Finnic + Estonian, because Estonian is known to have borrowed a fair number of terms from Finnish.

If I'm not confident in reconstructing a term, I put a request there instead and list the cognates I did find.