Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/-ta

*-ta / *-tä

1. from; forms the ablative case, indicating motion away from

• Proto-Samoyedic: *-tə
  • Nenets:
    • Tundra Nenets: [script needed] (-d)
• Mari:
  • Eastern Mari: [script needed] (-č)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *-də (ablative), *-stə (elative), *-ldə
  • Erzya: -до (-do) / -де (-de), -сто (-sto) / стэ (stë), -лдо (-ldo) / -льде (-lde)
  • Moksha: -да (-da), -ста (-sta), -лда (-lda)
• Proto-Samic: *-tē (partitive)
• Proto-Finnic: *-ta/*-da (partitive), *-sta (elative), *-lta (ablative)

May have originally indicated possession.^[1]

The reconstruction without a preceding vowel *-e- is based on the assertion by SKRK that the original form did not have it, the comparison with Khanty and the possible Finnic descendants which show no sign of the preceding vowel.

*-ta

1. A generic adjective marker attached to roots, maybe primarily or exclusively.

• *-eta

• Ugric:
  • >? Northern Khanty: -ты (-ty) (e.g. вўрты (wŭrty, “red”) (Shuryshkar) from вўр (wŭr, “blood”))^[2]
• Finnic:
  • ⇒ Proto-Finnic: *-ut
  • ⇒? Finnish: -usta, -sto

From *-eta:

• Permic:
  • Komi:
    • Komi-Permyak: -ыт (-yt)
    • Komi-Zyrian: -ыд (-yd)
  • Udmurt: -ыт (-yt)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *-ədə
  • Erzya: -одо (-odo), -адо (-ado), -ода (-oda)
  • Moksha: -ада (-ada), -еда (-eda), -да (-da)
• Proto-Samic: *-ëtē
• Proto-Finnic: *-ëda

• *-ta-

• Serebrennikov, B. A. (1967) Istoričeskaja morfologija mordovskix jazykov [Historical morphology of the Mordvinic languages] (in Russian), Moskva, page 19