-eņa
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ena"
Latgalian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-eņa (masculine -eņš)
- Used to form diminutives of (primarily) hard-stemmed feminine nouns.
Usage notes
[edit]- Triggers ablaut in the stem: o > a, a > e, ā > ie, y > i.
- Triggers palatalisation of a preceding velar consonant: k > c, g > dz.
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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nominative | -eņa | -enis, -eņas1) |
genitive | -enis, -eņas1) | -eņu |
dative | -eņai | -eņom |
accusative | -eņu | -enis, -eņas1) |
instrumental | -eņu | -eņom |
locative | -eņā | -eņuos |
vocative | -eņa, -eņ | -enis, -eņas1) |
1) dialectal
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | -eņa | -enis, -eņas1) |
genitive | -enis, -eņas1) | -eņu |
dative | -eņai | -enem, -eņom1) |
accusative | -eni | -enis, -eņas1) |
instrumental | -eni | -enem, -eņom1) |
locative | -enē, -enī1) | -enēs, -eņuos1) |
vocative | -eņa, -eņ | -enis, -eņas1) |
1) dialectal
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-eņa
References
[edit]- Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 26