-h
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Afar
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-h
- Marks the benefactive case: for ...'s benefit
- Marks the allative case: towards
- Marks the prolative case: by way of
- Marks the instrumental case: using; with
- Marks the adessive case: on; on top of
- Marks the temporal case: during; on
- Marks the causal case: because of
- Marks the estimative case: of about
- Marks the assertive mood: really
- (+ én or geytimé) Marks the verbal noun
- Used after the genitive case of nouns ending on a vowel, before words beginning with a vowel
References
[edit]- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 357
Classical Nahuatl
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-h
- Used to form the plural of absolutive noun forms.
- Examples:
Usage notes
[edit]Some nouns pluralized with -h undergo the reduplication of their first or second syllable.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-h
- Forms the plural of verbs. Only used for animate subjects.
- titītza (“to stretch something”) → quititītzah (“They stretch it”)
- itta (“to see something”) → quittah (“They see it”)
- tolīnia (“to bother someone, to make suffer”) → ammotolīniah (“You (plrl.) suffer, You are bothered”)
- titītza (“to stretch something”) → motitītzah (“They stretch (themselves)”)
- itta (“to see something”) → tiquittah (“We see it”)
- pāca (“to wash something”) → tlapācah (“They wash something, they wash things”)
Karelian
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-h
Derived terms
[edit]Category Karelian terms suffixed with -h not found
References
[edit]- P. M. Zaykov (1999) Грамматика Карельского языка (фонетика и морфология), →ISBN, page 47
Maltese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-h m
- Alternative form of -u (“him, it”), used after a vowel
Related terms
[edit]Categories:
- Afar terms with IPA pronunciation
- Afar lemmas
- Afar suffixes
- Classical Nahuatl terms with IPA pronunciation
- Classical Nahuatl lemmas
- Classical Nahuatl suffixes
- Karelian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Karelian lemmas
- Karelian suffixes
- Maltese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Maltese lemmas
- Maltese suffixes
- Maltese personal pronouns
- Maltese masculine suffixes