etä-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "eta"

Finnish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈetæ-/, [ˈe̞t̪æ-]

Prefix

etä-

distant, remote, long-distance, far-off, remote
Synonym: kauko- (more common)

etäsukukieli ― distantly related language
remote, tele-, e-, distance
etäoppiminen ― distance learning

etäkokous ― teleconference

etätyö ― remote work

etäopettaja ― e-teacher

Inflection

Declension of etä-

noun case	singular	plural	adverbial 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.

Derived terms

adjectives

etäinen

adverbs

etäs (dialectal)
etäälle
etäällä
etäältä

verbs

etääntyä

compounds

Related terms

See the inflection table.

Further reading

“etä-”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023