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-alo

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "alo"

Esperanto

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈalo]
Rhymes: -alo
Hyphenation: a‧lo

Suffix

-alo

(organic chemistry) Forms the names of aldehydes.
‎metano (“methane”) + ‎-alo → ‎metanalo (“formaldehyde”)

‎etano (“ethane”) + ‎-alo → ‎etanalo (“acetaldehyde”)

Finnish

Etymology

The reason for the -a- is not well understood.

Suffix

-alo

Alternative form of -lo

Usage notes

Attached only to e-stems.

Derived terms

Finnish terms suffixed with -alo

Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit -𑀆𑀮 (-āla),^[1] from Sanskrit -आल (-āla).^[2]

Suffix

-alo

Added to a noun to form an adjective meaning "having the quality of".
‎baxt (“luck”) + ‎-alo → ‎baxtalo (“lucky”)

Derived terms

Romani adjectives suffixed with -alo

References

^ Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “-aló”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 52-53
^ Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎^[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 42

Serbo-Croatian

Suffix

-alo (Cyrillic spelling -ало)

Suffix appended to words to create a neuter noun, usually denoting senses or objects, used as a pejorative or as an abstract noun.

See also

-lo
-ilo

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