-lane
See also: Appendix:Variations of "lane"
Estonian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finnic *-lainen. Cognate with Finnish -lainen. Attested since at least 1632, when wainlasset (modern vaenlast) is found in a fragmentary Bible (Matthew 22.44).
Suffix edit
-lane (genitive -lase, partitive -last)
- Derives nouns from places for a person originating from that place.
- Eesti "Estonia" → eestlane "Estonian"
- välismaa "foreign country" → välismaalane "foreigner"
- New York → newyorklane "New Yorker"
- Derives nouns from other nouns indicating a member or follower of a group related to the base noun.
- Derives nouns for occupations related to the base word.
- ajalugu "history" → ajaloolane "historian"
- õppima "to study" → õpilane "student"
- Derives nouns for a person (or other entity) according to some other characteristic.
Usage notes edit
In older texts (from the 1600s and 1700s), the partitive is often spelt -lasset, -laset or -lased.
Declension edit
| Declension of -lane (ÕS type 12/oluline, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | -lane | -lased | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | -lase | ||
| genitive | -laste | ||
| partitive | -last | -lasi | |
| illative | -lasse -lasesse |
-lastesse -lasisse | |
| inessive | -lases | -lastes -lasis | |
| elative | -lasest | -lastest -lasist | |
| allative | -lasele | -lastele -lasile | |
| adessive | -lasel | -lastel -lasil | |
| ablative | -laselt | -lastelt -lasilt | |
| translative | -laseks | -lasteks -lasiks | |
| terminative | -laseni | -lasteni | |
| essive | -lasena | -lastena | |
| abessive | -laseta | -lasteta | |
| comitative | -lasega | -lastega | |