Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/hän

Etymology
From,. The initial sound change *s > *h is irregular; a similar sound change is regular between the second and third syllables, and the relative lack of sentence stress given to personal pronouns appears to have motivated a similar change (also seen in ). Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) he, she
 * 2) (possibly) it, for inanimate objects

Descendants
In Southern Finnic (Estonian, Livonian, South Estonian incl. Võro, Votic), the pronoun has been repurposed as a reflexive pronominal stem, while is used as the third-person pronoun.


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