tāns

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See also: tans, Tans, and tåns

Old Prussian

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Two possible routes:

  1. from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas, with suffix nasalization frequent in Old Prussian;
  2. from earlier *tānas, a result of conflation of Proto-Balto-Slavic *ta- + *anas.

Pronoun

tāns

  1. he, the third person singular pronoun

Declension

Sg. Pl.
Nom. tāns
(tans)		 tennei
Acc. tennan
(tennen)		 tennans
(tannans)
Dat. tennesmu
(tenesmu, tennēismu, tennijsmu)		 tennēimans
(tennēimons)
Gen. tennessei tennēisan
(tenneison, tanassen, tanaessen)

References

  • Mažiulis, Vytautas (1988–1997) “tāns”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological dictionary of Old Prussian]‎ (in Lithuanian), Vilnius
  • W. R. Schmalstieg (1971) “New Look at the Old Prussian Pronoun”, in Baltistica VII(2), Vilnius: Vilniau Universitetas
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