Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/tämä

This Proto-Finnic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Finnic

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *tä +‎ *-mä (the suffix is only present in otherwise monosyllabic forms).

Pronoun

*tämä

1. this (proximal)

Determiner

*tämä

1. this (proximal)

Inflection

Plural: *nämä

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

In Southern Finnic (Estonian, Livonian, Võro, Votic), the pronoun has also developed into a third-person pronoun, whereas the Northern Finnic languages use *hän.

• Estonian: tema
• Finnish: tämä
  • Kven: tämä
• Ingrian: tämä
• Karelian:
  • North Karelian: tämä
  • South Karelian: tämä
• Livonian: tämā
• Livvi: tämä
• Ludian: tämä
• Veps: tämä (rare, only in some expressions)
• Võro: timä
• Votic: tämä

Further reading

• “tema”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012