summer fallow 1 realization
NEW Realization 1
type Polysemy
language Finnish
lexeme kesä
meaning 1 summer
direction
meaning 2 (archaic) fallow
reference Vahros, Ščerbakov 2007 Uralonet: 1304
comment

From Proto-Finnic *kesä, from Proto-Finno-Permic *kesä 'summer; fallow' (probably a loanword from Indo-European *(s)h₁es- 'harvest'). Cognate with Estonian kesa 'fallow', Veps keza 'summer', Võro kesä 'fallow', Erzya кизэ 'summer; year'.