Talk:tänään

Etymology
I would guess, the word comes from tämä / tä- (this) in the essive case (essive case with temporal meaning: on a day) with the ending -nä and additionally the possessive ending -än (coming from -nsä, shortened to -än). Concerning -än / -nsä: So far, I don't know why it should be used, maybe someone else knows that? AFAIK, this -nsä is used quite often when you don't know why at first, so... This etymology sounds quite reasonable to me, so if noone disagrees with me in the following week, I would add it, ok? So: tä- (this) + -nä (essive ending) + -än (possessive ending) 193.185.137.35 02:34, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Sounds reasonable, but so does this: tänä päivänä ("on this day") > tänäpänä (dialecteal contraction that I have heard in Häme) > tänänä > tänään. The moral of the story? Don't add etymologies that you have made up, how reasonable they ever may sound. has written a lot about Finnish etymology. Perhaps she already has an explanation, which only awaits to be cited here. Check in your nearest library! --Hekaheka (talk) 07:48, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Ok, I won't add anything, you convinced me. 193.185.137.35 01:46, 7 April 2015 (UTC)