vasta-

See also: vasta

FinnishEdit

From Proto-Finnic *vasta, from Proto-Finno-Permic *wasta (“a place opposite or across”). Related to Estonian vast, Ingrian vassa, Karelian vasta, Livonian vastõ, Livvi vastah, Veps vast, Võro vasta, Votic vassõ, Northern Sami vuostá (“towards, against”), Erzya васта (vasta, “spouse”), вастомс (vastoms, “to meet”), Moksha васта (vasta, “spot, place”) and probably Eastern Mari ваштареш (vaštareš, “against”).

vasta-

Like many other Finnish prefixes, vasta- has inflected forms to a limited extent that are used as adverbs.

Declension of vasta-

noun case	singular	plural	adverbial form	singular	plural
nominative	vasta-	–	superessive	–	–
genitive	–	–	delative	–	–
partitive	–	–	sublative	–	–
accusative	–	–	lative	–	–
inessive	vastassa	–	temporal	–	–
elative	–	–	causative	–	–
illative	vastaan	–	multiplicative	–	–
adessive	–	–	distributive	–	–
ablative	–	–	temp. dist.	–	–
allative	–	–	prolative	–	–
essive	–	–	situative	vastakkain	–
translative	–	–	oppositive	vastatusten	–
instructive	vasten	vastoin
abessive	–	–
comitative	–	–

expressing contrast

expressing recentness

expressing reciprocity