-cil
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "cil"
Azerbaijani
[edit]Cyrillic | -ҹил | |
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Abjad | -چیل |
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]preceding vowel | |||
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A / I | E / Ə / İ | O / U | Ö / Ü |
-cıl | -cil | -cul | -cül |
-cil
- Suffix appended to nouns to derive adjectives with the meaning of inclination.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Şirəliyev, Məmmədağa, Sevortyan, Ervand (1971) “-cil”, in Grammatika azerbajdžanskovo jazyka. Fonetika, morfologija i sintaksis. [Grammar of Azerbaijani language. Phonetics, morphology, syntax.], Baku: Elm, page 64
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ـجیل (-cil).
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]preceding vowel | ||||
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A / I | E / İ | O / U | Ö / Ü | |
default | -cıl | -cil | -cul | -cül |
assimilated | -çıl | -çil | -çul | -çül |
-cil
- Derives names of animals, mainly but not exclusively birds, which denote their diet or their tendency to prey on a certain type of animal.
- Derives names of plants or animals, which denote their tendency or preference to habitate a certain type of environment or location.
- batak (“bog, marsh”) + -çıl → batakçıl (“that which lives, likes to live in swamps, swampy areas”)
- kurak (“dry, arid”) + -çıl → kurakçıl (“that which lives, likes to live in a dry, arid environment”)
- dağ (“mountain”) + -cıl → dağcıl (“that which lives, likes to live on mountains, in mountainous areas”)
- Derives adjectives from nouns, which denote a tendency, fondness, habit, affection or dependency towards an action or behaviour.
- Adds the meaning of tendency, willingness or closeness.
- Adds the meaning of similarity, likeness.
- Derives terms.