-nt

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *-nta. Cognates include dialectal Finnish -nta and Estonian -nt.

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

References

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

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