tāns

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See also: tans, Tans, and tåns

Old Prussian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Two possible routes:

  1. from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas, with suffix nasalization frequent in Old Prussian;
  2. from earlier *tānas, a result of conflation of Proto-Balto-Slavic *ta- + *anas.

Pronoun

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tāns

  1. he, the third person singular pronoun

Declension

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Sg. Pl.
Nom. tāns
(tans)
tennei
Acc. tennan
(tennen)
tennans
(tannans)
Dat. tennesmu
(tenesmu, tennēismu, tennijsmu)
tennēimans
(tennēimons)
Gen. tennessei tennēisan
(tenneison, tanassen, tanaessen)

References

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  • Mažiulis, Vytautas (1988–1997) “tāns”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas[1] (in Lithuanian), Vilnius
  • W. R. Schmalstieg (1971) “New Look at the Old Prussian Pronoun”, in Baltistica VII(2), Vilnius: Vilniau Universitetas