Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/-ja
Proto-Finnic edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Uralic *-ja, which was originally a participle ending in Proto-Uralic. Related to Proto-Samic *-jē.
Suffix edit
*-ja / *-jä
- Forms agent nouns from verbs.
Usage notes edit
When attached to verbs with a stem in -e-, this changes to -i-. This takes place in most Finnic descendants, but it is uncertain whether this change already occurred in Proto-Finnic.
Inflection edit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
Probably cognate with Komi-Zyrian -я (-ja) (in e.g. дыря (dyra)) and Udmurt -я (-ja) (in e.g. дыря (dyra)),[1] in which case from Proto-Finno-Permic *-ja. Compare the illative suffix *-jen (found in e.g. some Estonian dialects and cognate with Proto-Samic *-jën).
Suffix edit
*-ja / *-jä
- Forms nouns, mainly place names or other locative nouns, from nominal stems.
Descendants edit
*k-lative (*-jak):
- Estonian: -ja (in dialectal edaja < *etä-jäk), possibly the same suffix as -ja in salaja
- Finnish: -ia (in kahtia, kotia...)
- >? Livonian: -i (in kuodāi < *kota-jak, if not *kota-jën)
With external locative suffixes *-lla, *-len, *-lta:
References edit
- ^ Rédei, Károly. Az uráli-finnugor névszóragozás történetéből: A koaffixumok szerepe a névszóragozás kialakulásában. Nyelvtudományi Közlemények 93 (1992–1993). pp. 79–94