Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/nämä

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 This Proto-Finnic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Finnic

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *nä +‎ *-mä (the suffix is only present in otherwise monosyllabic forms).

Pronoun

*nämä[1]

  1. these (proximal)

Determiner

*nämä[1]

  1. these (proximal)

Inflection

Singular: *tämä

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

In Southern Finnic (Estonian, Livonian, Võro, Votic), the pronoun has also developed into a third-person pronoun, whereas the Northern Finnic languages use *hek, *höö.

  • Finnish: nämä
  • Karelian:
  • Livvi: nämä
  • Ludian: nämä
  • Votic: nämä

From *nämät (with standard plural ending *-t in the nominative):

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*nämä”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary]‎ (in Finnish)

Further reading

  • “nemad”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “nämä”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The Origin of Finnish Words]‎ (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
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