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-आई

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Hindi

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Etymology

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From Old Hindi -आई (-āī). As this suffix can be applied to both nominals and verbs, possibly from a merger of:

Pronunciation

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  • (Delhi) IPA(key): /ɑː.iː/, [äː.iː]

Suffix

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-आई (-āī)

  1. Forms feminine abstract nouns.

Declension

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Derived terms

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References

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  • Bahri, Hardev (1989) “-आई”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “-आई”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 232