Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/taa

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

Possibly from Proto-Uralic *ta, probably a variant of Proto-Uralic *to, or alternatively borrowed from Proto-Baltic *tas (compare Latvian tas, Lithuanian tàs).

Pronoun

*taa[1]

  1. that (medial/distal?)

Determiner

*taa[1]

  1. that (medial/distal?)

Usage notes

In Northern Finnic (Finnish, Karelian, Livvi, Ludic) descendants, also used proximally.

Inflection

Plural: *naa

This determiner needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • >? Estonian: (partially?) ta
  • Finnish: taa (dialectal), ⇒ taannoin
  • ⇒ Ingrian: taano
  • Karelian:
  • Livonian: ta
  • Livvi: tua
  • Ludian: tua, ⇒ tuai
  • ⇒ Veps: tanoin
  • Võro: taa
  • ⇒ Votic: taanõ

References

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

Further reading

  • “ta”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Entry #1016 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
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