-dme

Veps

Alternative forms

• -tme (variant of the suffix in words ending with -t in partitive)
• -tmet
• -dmö/-tmö, -dmöt/-tmöt (archaic and/or dialectal)

Etymology

From earlier -dmöt, -dmö, from merging -d (partitive suffix) + möto (posposition), which in turn derives from Proto-Finnic *möötä.

Suffix

-dme

1. Case suffix used to form the prolative case; along (something)

Usage notes

• Takes the form -tme if the word in partitve ends with -t, e.g.:
  • tehut, vezi, käzi (in partitive tehut, vet, kät) > tehutme, vetme, kätme
• When several words in the sentence require the case, -me is appended to the last one (though in folklore text and formal speech all words can take it):
  • Mänen levedadme tehutme = Mänen levedad tehutme — "I'm going along the wide road"

See also

• -iči (another prolative case)
• -d (partitive case)

Further reading

• Maria I. Zaitseva (1981) Yu. S. Yeliseyev, editor, Грамматика вепсского языка (фонетика и морфология)‎^[1], Leningrad, pages 186, 190