Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/-ja

Etymology 1
From, which was originally a participle ending in Proto-Uralic. Related to 🇨🇬.

Usage notes
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.

Etymology 2
Probably cognate with 🇨🇬 (in e.g. ) and 🇨🇬 (in e.g. ), in which case from. Compare the illative suffix (found in e.g. some Estonian dialects and cognate with 🇨🇬).

Descendants


-lative :
 * (in dialectal < ), possibly the same suffix as  in
 * (in, ...)
 * (in <, if not )

With external locative suffixes, , :