Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/tämä

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 *tä +‎ *-mä (the suffix is only present in otherwise monosyllabic forms).

Pronoun

*tämä[1]

  1. this (proximal)

Determiner

*tämä[1]

  1. this (proximal)

Inflection

Plural: *nämä

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 *hän.

  • Estonian: tema
  • Finnish: tämä
  • Ingrian: tämä
  • Karelian:
  • Livonian: tämā
  • Livvi: tämä
  • Ludian: tämä
  • Veps: tämä (rare, only in some expressions)
  • Võro: timä
  • Votic: tämä

References

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

Further reading

  • “tema”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
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