etä-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "eta"

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *etä, from Proto-Finno-Permic *ečkä, *ečä. Cognate with Moksha ичкозэ (ičkoze, “far”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈetæ-/, [ˈe̞t̪æ-]

Prefix

etä-

  1. distant, remote, long-distance, far-off, remote, tele-, e-
    etäoppiminen ― distance learning
    etäsukukieli ― distantly related language
    etäkokous ― teleconference
    etätyö ― remote work
    etäopettaja ― e-teacher

Inflection
Declension of etä-
noun case singular pluraladverbial
form		 singular plural
nominative etä- –superessive etäällä –
genitive – –delative etäältä –
partitive – –sublative etäälle –
accusative – –lative – –
inessive – –temporal – –
elative – –causative – –
illative – –multiplicative – –
adessive – –distributive – –
ablative – –temp. dist. – –
allative – –prolative – –
essive etänä –situative – –
translative – –oppositive – –
instructive – –
abessive – –
comitative – –

The cases of etä- serve in Finnish only as adverbs.

Synonyms
  • (distant, remote, long-distance, far-off): kauko-

Derived terms
Finnish terms prefixed with etä-

Compounds
  • See the inflection table.
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