Appended to a genitive-requiring postposition that is after or without minun (the genitive of the personal pronoun minä), me · Used in a shortened sentence expressing concurrent actions when the clauses have the same subject "I", appended to the inessive of the active second infinitive. · Used in a final shortened sentence expressing "in order to do" when the clauses have the same subject "I", appended to the long first infinitive.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *-ni, from Proto-Uralic *-ne. Originally *-mi was the first-person singular possessive suffix used in the nominative singular, but -ni has replaced it, and it is now only found in dialects. Compare Erzya -м (-m).
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *eǵh₂óm Proto-Indo-Iranian *aȷ́Hám Proto-Indo-Iranian *aȷ́ʰám Proto-Iranian *ajám Old Persian 𐎶𐎴𐎠 (m-n-a /manā/) Middle Persian 𐫖𐫗 (man) Persian من Inherited from Middle Persian 𐫖𐫗 (man, “me (early), I (later)”), from Old Persian 𐎶𐎴𐎠 (m-n-a /manā/, gen.sg. of 𐎠𐎭𐎶 (a-d-m)), from Proto-Iranian *ajám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *aȷ́ʰám, from earlier *aȷ́Hám, from…