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Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *-ssa, from earlier *-s-na, from *-s- (internal locative infix, of uncertain origin but possibly from the lative ending *-s (traditionally held theory), from Proto-Uralic *sɜ or a contraction of Proto-Uralic *sekä (“inside, interior”)[1]) + *-na (locative case suffix). Cognate with Erzya -со (-so), -сэ (-se).
Suffix
-ssa (front vowel harmony variant -ssä, linguistic notation -ssA)
- The marker of inessive case; in, inside
- talo > talossa sg, taloissa pl
- metsä > metsässä sg, metsissä pl
Onko hän talossa?- Is he in the house?
Ehdin tehdä sen kahdessa tunnissa.- I managed to do it in two hours.
Ja nyt putket ovat tyystin öljyssä.- And now the pipes are covered in oil, through and through.
Peruna on aivan iduissa.- The potato is totally covered in sprouts.
Usage notes
- See the appendix on Finnish nominal cases for more information on how the inessive case is used.
- Dialectal forms include -s, -sa (especially in Western Finnish);.[2] the form -ssa was adopted from the eastern dialects into the standard language.
References
- ^ Ylikoski, Jussi. The origins of the western Uralic s-cases revisited: historiographical, functional-typological and Samoyedic perspectives. FUF 63: 6–78 (2016)
- ^ Lauri Kettunen: Suomen murteet III A. Murrekartasto, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, Helsinki 1940. Map #104. (Online link http://kettunen.fnhost.org/html/kett104.html)
Greenlandic
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ssa (v-v?, truncative?)
- Marks the future tense.
- Marks logical necessity.
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