-nt

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nt"

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *-nta. Cognates include dialectal Finnish -nta and Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Originally, the suffix would be appended to the ablative stem, but this was changed in analogy to the essive.

Pronunciation

(Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /-ntɑ/, [-ntɑ], /-ntæ/, [-ntæ]

(Soikkola) IPA^(key): /-nt/, [-nd̥]

Suffix

-nt

Used to form the exessive case: out of being

Inflection

Possessive forms of -nt
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	-ntaan	-ntaamme
2nd person	-ntaas	-ntaanne
3rd person	-ntaa	-ntaasse

References

V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 45

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