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Afar

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Pronunciation

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Suffix

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-tó

  1. Form of -ytó used after nouns ending in consonants.

Declension

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Declension of -tó
absolutive -tó
predicative -tó
subjective -tó
genitive -tó
Postpositioned forms
l-case -tól
k-case -tók
t-case -tót
h-case -tóh

References

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  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 228
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Basque

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Etymology 1

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Unknown, probably attested in Aquitanian *nescato.[1]

Suffix

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-to

  1. Diminutive suffix.
  2. (rare, non-productive) Augmentative suffix.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Unknown.[2]

Suffix

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-to

  1. (Biscayan) Forms adverbs from adjectives.
    Synonym: -ki
Derived terms
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References

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  1. ^ -to [1]” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk
  2. ^ -to [2]” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk

Further reading

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  • -to” in Labayru Hiztegia

Chuukese

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Suffix

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-to

  1. here; used to modify verb direction

Ingrian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Russian -то (-to).

Pronunciation

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Particle

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-to

  1. Used to give contrastive emphasis to a preceding word.
    Miä veel en tohi viinaa ostaa, miul-to ono vaa viistoist vootta!
    I'm not allowed to buy alcohol yet, I am still fifteen years old, after all!

References

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  • Elena Markus (2022) “Diskursusepartiklid isuri keele Soikkola murdes”, in Keel ja kirjandus, page 86

Kalo Finnish Romani

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Suffix

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-to

  1. Used to form ordinal numbers.

Usage notes

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The first two ordinal numbers have irregular forms in addition to the regular forms, iekto and duito: vaaguno and vauro. The third and fourth are somewhat irregular: tritto and startto instead of the expected *triinto and *staarto.

Latin

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Please come along and share your opinions on this and the other topics being discussed there. The user who started this topic summarised the issue as: “I think saying t-starting suffixes are in latin added to the supine form is inherently wrong, see also Wiktionary:Etymology scriptorium at 'Latin cursim, passim, sparsim, etc.' ”

Etymology 1

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Likely originally denominatives in formed from the past participle.

Suffix

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-tō (present infinitive -tāre, perfect active -tāvī, supine -tātum); first conjugation

  1. Forms frequentative verbs from existing verbs. In Latin, this means repeated or intense action.[1] For examples, see here.
Usage notes
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The suffix uses the past participle/supine stem as the base, see the usage notes at -tus for more. It is not used for first conjugation verbs, the variant -itō appears there instead.

Conjugation
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1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Suffix

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-tō

  1. masculine/neuter dative/ablative singular of -tus

References

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  1. ^ B. L. Gildersleeve and Gonzalez Lodge (1895), Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar, §191 A.

Taos

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Pronunciation

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Postposition

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-to

  1. in, within, on, at
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Ye'kwana

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Etymology 1

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Alternative forms

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  • -cho (allomorph after i)

Pronunciation

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Suffix

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-to

  1. Forms the plural of nonpast tenses.
  2. Forms the plural of the recent past tense. (When used alone, forms the plural of the recent past perfective tense when the arguments of the verb are first- or second-person.)
  3. Forms the plural of the distant past tense when at least one of the arguments of the verb is third-person.
Usage notes
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This suffix can cause syllable reduction.

Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Suffix

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-to

  1. Allomorph of -ato (adverb/postposition nominalizing suffix) used after all vowels but e and i.

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “⸗to”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[2], Lyon, pages 124, 213–222