-mma

See also: mma and MMA

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [-mma]

Suffix

-mma

1. only, exclusively, alone

Usage notes

The morpheme is properly a clitic rather than a suffix. It can attach to words of various lexical categories (verbs, nouns, pronouns, postpositions, etc.).

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “⸗mma”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, pages 164–165