-да

• -та (-ta) (after stems ending in д (d), e.g., ведьта (veďta))

Mordvinic ablative is a direct descendant of Proto-Uralic *-ta, *-tä (ablative suffix). It has been preserved in Finnish luo-ta (“from”), yl-tä (“from over”), this suffix is also a part of Finnish -sta (elative suffix) and was kept in Finnish -lta (ablative suffix) (the latter two are composite suffixes), otherwise the old ablative has been repurposed for the role of partitive in Finnish. Uralic *-ta correspondences in other languages: Eastern Mari -ч (-č) (< *-ti); Ob-Ugric and Hungarian -l, for example, Northern Mansi [script needed] (num-n, “on top, above”), [script needed] (num-əl, “from above”), Hungarian felő-l (“from (the direction of)”), mellő-l (“from next to”); Tundra Nenets [script needed] (ńi-d; ńa-d, “from the surface of; from”), aside from these postpositions, Nenets ablative contains the coaffix -ha-/-ka-, for example, [script needed] (pəδara-had, “from forest”), [script needed] (mar-kad, “from city”).^[1]

-да • (-da)

1. ablative suffix
   • V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, →ISBN

     впервые — васенцеда

     vpervije — vaśeńće da

     for the first time [in Russian] — for the first time