etä-

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Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *etä, from Proto-Finno-Permic *ečkä, *ečä. Cognate with Moksha ичкозе (ičkoźe, “far”).

Pronunciation

Prefix

etä-

  1. distant, remote, long-distance, far-off, remote, tele-, e-
    etäoppiminen ― distance learning
    etäsukukieli ― distantly related language
    etäkokous ― teleconference
    etätyö ― remote work
    etäopettaja ― e-teacher

Inflection

Declension of etä-
noun case singular pluraladverbial form singular plural
nominative etä- –superessive etäällä –
genitive – –delative etäältä –
partitive – –sublative etäälle –
accusative – –lative – –
inessive – –temporal – –
elative – –causative – –
illative – –multiplicative – –
adessive – –distributive – –
ablative – –temp. dist. – –
allative – –prolative – –
essive etänä –situative – –
translative – –oppositive – –
abessive – –
instructive – –
comitative – –

The cases of etä- serve in Finnish only as adverbs.

Synonyms

  • (distant, remote, long-distance, far-off): kauko-

Derived terms

Finnish terms prefixed with etä-
adjectives
adverbs
verbs
compounds

Related terms

  • See the inflection table.

Further reading

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia