Where does “-neen” come from?
-neen (Finnish) comes from Finnish -en, from Finnish -Vn, from Finnish -hVn, from Proto-Finnic -hen, from Proto-Finnic -sen.
-neen (Finnish): Comitative case suffix in third person
Definitions
- Comitative case suffix in third person
Ancestry of “-neen”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | -en | Suffix variant for the illative singular, see... |
| 2 | Finnish | -Vn | — |
| 3 | Finnish | -hVn | Forms the illative singular case |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -hen | — |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -sen | — |