Where does “-in” come from?

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

-in (Northern Sami): The ending of the comitative singular case; The...

Definitions

  1. The ending of the comitative singular case; The...

Ancestry of “-in”, step by step

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