Where does “-staan” come from?

-staan (Finnish) comes from Finnish -än, from Finnish -hän, from Finnish hän, from Proto-Finnic hän — he, she; it, for inanimate objects.

-staan (Finnish): Forms some adverbs, particularly with a locative meaning

Definitions

  1. Forms some adverbs, particularly with a locative meaning

Ancestry of “-staan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-änFront vowel variant of -an
2Finnish-hänAlternative form of -hVn
3Finnishhänhe, she, one, they
4Proto-Finnichänhe, she; it, for inanimate objects

Words derived from “-staan”

Every word from Proto-Finnic hän →