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-mää

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Gagauz

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Etymology

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From the dative inflection of Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (-mäk/-mak), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *-mek. Compare Turkish -mek, Azerbaijani -mək. The usage of the dative case as the infinitive suffix is probably a semantic loan from Romanian a, which also both conveys the same meaning as the Gagauz dative case and forms infinitives. By surface analysis, -mäk +‎

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Suffix

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-mää

  1. forms infinitves from verb roots ending with front vowels
  2. singular dative of -mäk