Where does “-jn” come from?

-jn (Lule Sami) comes from Proto-Samic -jnē, from Proto-Samic -nē, from Proto-Uralic -ŋa — at, in.

-jn (Lule Sami): forms the

Definitions

  1. forms the

Ancestry of “-jn”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Samic-jnēEnding of the essive and inessive plural
2Proto-Samic-nēEnding of the essive singular
3Proto-Uralic-ŋaat, in
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