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Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *-icin. Related to Estonian -si and Livonian -ž. Probably originally an instructive plural form of *-inën (-inen), at least in the non-temporal sense.
Suffix
-isin
- Forms temporal distributive adverbs.
- aamu (“morning”) + -isin → aamuisin (“in the mornings”)
- maanantai (“Monday”) + -isin → maanantaisin (“on Mondays”)
- kesä (“summer”) + -isin → kesäisin (“in the summers”)
- Used to form some adverbs.
- väki + -isin → väkisin
Usage notes
-isin adverbs are generally considered to be derived from plural stems, but it is likely that the -i- was always part of the suffix, as with -itse.
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