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FromProto-Uralic*-ja(participle ending). Related toProto-Samic*-jē.
*-ja / *-jä
When attached to verbs with a stem in-e-, this changes to-i-. This takes place in most Finnic descendants, but it is uncertain whether this change already occurred in Proto-Finnic.
This noun needs aninflection-table template.
Probably cognate withKomi-Zyrian-я(-ja) (in e.g.дыря(dyra)) andUdmurt-я(-ja) (in e.g.дыря(dyra)),[1] in which case fromProto-Finno-Permic*-ja. Compare the illative suffix*-jen (found in e.g. some Estonian dialects and cognate withProto-Samic*-jën).
*-ja / *-jä
*k-lative (*-jak):
With external locative suffixes*-lla,*-len,*-lta: