"hän" meaning in Proto-Finnic

See hän in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Pronoun

Etymology: From Proto-Finno-Ugric *sän, *sen, from Proto-Uralic *sᴕ̈. The initial sound change *s > *h is irregular; a similar sound change is regular between the second and third syllables, and the relative lack of sentence stress given to personal pronouns appears to have motivated a similar change (also seen in *hek). Cognate with Proto-Samic *sonë. Etymology templates: {{inh|urj-fin-pro|fiu-pro|*sän}} Proto-Finno-Ugric *sän, {{inh|urj-fin-pro|urj-pro|*sᴕ̈}} Proto-Uralic *sᴕ̈, {{cog|smi-pro|*sonë}} Proto-Samic *sonë Head templates: {{head|urj-fin-pro|pronouns|cat2=personal pronouns}} *hän Inflection templates: {{urj-fin-decl|hän}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], hän [nominative, singular], - [nominative, plural], hänen [accusative, singular], - [accusative, plural], hänen [genitive, singular], - [genitive, plural], häntä [partitive, singular], - [partitive, plural], hänessä [inessive, singular], hänehnä [inessive, singular], - [inessive, plural], hänestä [elative, singular], - [elative, plural], hänehen [illative, singular], - [illative, plural], hänellä [adessive, singular], - [adessive, plural], häneltä [ablative, singular], - [ablative, plural], hänelen [allative, singular], hänelek [allative, singular], - [allative, plural], hännä [essive, singular], - [essive, plural], häneksi [singular, translative], - [plural, translative], hänen [instructive, singular], - [instructive, plural], hännek [comitative, singular], - [comitative, plural], hänettä [abessive, singular], - [abessive, plural]
  1. he, she Tags: reconstruction
    Sense id: en-hän-urj-fin-pro-pron-e2I9cl05
  2. A logophoric pronoun. Tags: reconstruction
    Sense id: en-hän-urj-fin-pro-pron-omzy9LOv Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Proto-Finnic entries with incorrect language header, Proto-Finnic nominals by type/Vle, Vne, Vre, Vse, Proto-Finnic personal pronouns, Proto-Finnic pronouns Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 0 100 Disambiguation of Proto-Finnic entries with incorrect language header: 0 100 Disambiguation of Proto-Finnic nominals by type/Vle, Vne, Vre, Vse: 0 100 Disambiguation of Proto-Finnic personal pronouns: 6 94 Disambiguation of Proto-Finnic pronouns: 11 89
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  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "lang_code": "et",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes",
        "< partitive singular *häntä",
        "later reanalyzed"
      ],
      "word": "enda"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "lang_code": "et",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes",
        "< genitive singular + possessive suffix",
        "*hänensäk"
      ],
      "word": "enese"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Kven",
          "lang_code": "fkv",
          "word": "hän"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "word": "hän"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Votic",
          "lang_code": "vot",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed",
            "Kattila"
          ],
          "word": "hän"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "lang_code": "izh",
      "word": "hää"
    },
    {
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        {
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          "lang_code": "vot",
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          ],
          "word": "hän"
        }
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      "lang": "Ingrian",
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      "tags": [
        "dialectal"
      ],
      "word": "hän"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Votic",
          "lang_code": "vot",
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            "Kattila"
          ],
          "word": "hän"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "lang_code": "izh",
      "word": "hään"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "North Karelian",
          "lang_code": "krl",
          "word": "hiän"
        },
        {
          "lang": "South Karelian",
          "lang_code": "krl",
          "word": "hiän"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Karelian",
      "lang_code": "krl"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Livonian",
      "lang_code": "liv",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "eņtš"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Livvi",
      "lang_code": "olo",
      "word": "häi"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Ludian",
      "lang_code": "lud",
      "word": "häin"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Veps",
      "lang_code": "vep",
      "word": "hän"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Võro",
      "lang_code": "vro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "hindä"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Kukkuzi",
          "lang_code": "urj-kuk",
          "word": "hän"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Kukkuzi",
          "lang_code": "urj-kuk",
          "word": "hään"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Votic",
      "lang_code": "vot",
      "word": "ene"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "urj-fin-pro",
        "2": "fiu-pro",
        "3": "*sän"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Finno-Ugric *sän",
      "name": "inh"
    },
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        "1": "urj-fin-pro",
        "2": "urj-pro",
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    },
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "urj-fin-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hän",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hänen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hänen",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "häntä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "partitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "partitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hänessä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hänehnä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hänestä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "elative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "elative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hänehen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "illative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "illative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hänellä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "häneltä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hänelen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hänelek",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hännä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "essive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "essive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "häneksi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "translative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "translative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hänen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instructive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instructive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hännek",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "comitative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "comitative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hänettä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "abessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "abessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "urj-fin-pro",
        "2": "pronouns",
        "cat2": "personal pronouns"
      },
      "expansion": "*hän",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hän"
      },
      "name": "urj-fin-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Finnic",
  "lang_code": "urj-fin-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/hän",
  "pos": "pron",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "he, she"
      ],
      "id": "en-hän-urj-fin-pro-pron-e2I9cl05",
      "links": [
        [
          "he",
          "he"
        ],
        [
          "she",
          "she"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "0 100",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 100",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 100",
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          "parents": [],
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        {
          "_dis": "6 94",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 89",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Finnic pronouns",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A logophoric pronoun."
      ],
      "id": "en-hän-urj-fin-pro-pron-omzy9LOv",
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hän"
}
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    "Pages with entries",
    "Proto-Finnic entries with incorrect language header",
    "Proto-Finnic lemmas",
    "Proto-Finnic nominals by type/Vle, Vne, Vre, Vse",
    "Proto-Finnic personal pronouns",
    "Proto-Finnic pronouns",
    "Proto-Finnic terms derived from Proto-Finno-Ugric",
    "Proto-Finnic terms derived from Proto-Uralic",
    "Proto-Finnic terms inherited from Proto-Finno-Ugric",
    "Proto-Finnic terms inherited from Proto-Uralic"
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  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "lang_code": "et",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes",
        "< partitive singular *häntä",
        "later reanalyzed"
      ],
      "word": "enda"
    },
    {
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      "lang_code": "et",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes",
        "< genitive singular + possessive suffix",
        "*hänensäk"
      ],
      "word": "enese"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Kven",
          "lang_code": "fkv",
          "word": "hän"
        }
      ],
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      "lang_code": "fi",
      "word": "hän"
    },
    {
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        {
          "lang": "Votic",
          "lang_code": "vot",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed",
            "Kattila"
          ],
          "word": "hän"
        }
      ],
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      "lang_code": "izh",
      "word": "hää"
    },
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        {
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          "lang_code": "vot",
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          ],
          "word": "hän"
        }
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    },
    {
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        {
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          ],
          "word": "hän"
        }
      ],
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      "lang_code": "izh",
      "word": "hään"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "North Karelian",
          "lang_code": "krl",
          "word": "hiän"
        },
        {
          "lang": "South Karelian",
          "lang_code": "krl",
          "word": "hiän"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Karelian",
      "lang_code": "krl"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Livonian",
      "lang_code": "liv",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "eņtš"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Livvi",
      "lang_code": "olo",
      "word": "häi"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Ludian",
      "lang_code": "lud",
      "word": "häin"
    },
    {
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      "lang_code": "vep",
      "word": "hän"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Võro",
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      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
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    },
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          "lang_code": "urj-kuk",
          "word": "hän"
        },
        {
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          "lang_code": "urj-kuk",
          "word": "hään"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Votic",
      "lang_code": "vot",
      "word": "ene"
    }
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "name": "inh"
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
    }
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  "forms": [
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hänen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hänen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "häntä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "partitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "partitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hänessä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hänehnä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hänestä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "elative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "elative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hänehen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "illative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "illative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hänellä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "häneltä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hänelen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hänelek",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hännä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "essive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "essive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "häneksi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "translative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "translative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hänen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instructive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instructive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hännek",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "comitative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "comitative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hänettä",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "abessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "abessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "urj-fin-pro",
        "2": "pronouns",
        "cat2": "personal pronouns"
      },
      "expansion": "*hän",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hän"
      },
      "name": "urj-fin-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Finnic",
  "lang_code": "urj-fin-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/hän",
  "pos": "pron",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "he, she"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "he",
          "he"
        ],
        [
          "she",
          "she"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A logophoric pronoun."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hän"
}

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