Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/taa
Proto-Finnic
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Uralic *ta, probably a variant of Proto-Uralic *to, or alternatively borrowed from Proto-Baltic *tas (compare Latvian tas, Lithuanian tàs).
Pronoun
- that (medial/distal?)
Determiner
- that (medial/distal?)
Usage notes
In Northern Finnic (Finnish, Karelian, Livvi, Ludic) descendants, also used proximally.
Inflection
Inflection of *taa
| Note: The Proto-Finnic declension system is yet to be reconstructed in detail. What is presented here is only one possibility. | |||
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *taa | *naa *naat | |
| accusative | *taan | *naa *naat | |
| genitive | *taan | *naadën *naidën | |
| partitive | *taata | *naita | |
| inessive | *taassa *taahna |
*naissa *naihna | |
| elative | *taasta | *naista | |
| illative | *taasën | *naisën | |
| adessive | *taalla | *nailla | |
| ablative | *taalta | *nailta | |
| allative | *taalën *taalëk |
*nailën *nailëk | |
| essive | *taana | *naina | |
| translative | *taaksi | *naiksi | |
| instructive | *taan | *nain | |
| comitative | *taanëk | *nainëk | |
| abessive | *taatta | *naitta | |
Descendants
- >? Estonian: (partially?) ta
- Finnish: taa (dialectal), ⇒ taannoin
- ⇒ Ingrian: taano
- Karelian:
- Livonian: ta
- Livvi: tua
- Ludian: tua, ⇒ tuai
- ⇒ Veps: tanoin
- Võro: taa
- ⇒ Votic: taanõ
References
Further reading
- “ta”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Entry #1016 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.