The Finnish verb jankata

(English translation)

 

Stubborn talk and nagging chatter, same old words that never matter.
Sounds like someone's broken mantra, that’s the verb we call jankata.

 

Janka-tanka-taka, janka-tanka-taka
janka-tanka-taka jankata​

 

Janka-tanka-taka, janka-tanka-taka

janka-tanka-taka jankata

 

A verb with sound descriptive building, causative in form, not meaning, 
Onomatopoeia - its sound descriptive, the whole idea

 

Jankuttaa was formed, derived from jankata,
The base verb nagging, always on and on.
Janka-tanka-taka…

 

In Karelian, it’s jankuttoa, a Finnish loan by spread and sound.
It’s heard in dialects close and near, its borrowed roots remain quite clear.
Jandlema, it translates, jändlema, it rambles
jändama, repeats Estonian
Janka-tanka-taka…

 

Other Finno-Ugric branches, are there cognates or mismatches?
Mari has a speech verb jangaš, but it’s borrowed from the Tatars

 

Mordvin jangams just as dull in sound and gait,
as Finnish jankata's steady state.

Janka-tanka-taka…

 

Despite the meaning and the form of Finnish, Mordvin, we inform
These are parallel formations, not shared ancestral connections 

 

In Proto-Finnic, phonotactics cool,

while jankkaa's cluster would just break that rule.

Janka-tanka-taka…

 

Sound-symbolic, strong and real, when Mordvin, Finnish share the feel
Labials, their nature’s heavy, describing meanings big and steady 

 

Did the sounds carry expressive powers
from the Proto-Uralic for jankata? 

 

Ee-e ee-e ee-e eee

Janka-tanka-taka… 
Janka-tanka-taka… 
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