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Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *etä, possibly from Proto-Finno-Permic *ečkä, *ečä. Cognate with Moksha ичкозе (ičkoźe, “far”).
Pronunciation
Prefix
etä-
- 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
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The cases of etä- serve in Finnish only as adverbs.
Synonyms
- (distant, remote, long-distance, far-off): kauko-
Derived terms
- See the inflection table.
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