tāns

See also: tans, Tans, and tåns

Old Prussian

Alternative forms

• tans

Etymology

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

tāns

1. he, the third person singular pronoun

Declension

	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

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