-ytu
Appearance
Afar
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ytu (feminine -ytó)
- Used to form masculine singulative nouns.
- Used to form masculine diminutive nouns.
- Used to form masculine nouns denoting origin, characteristic or occupation.
Usage notes
[edit]- Used after nouns ending in the vowel -a.
- After the vowels -e, -i, -o, -u the form -yta is used.
- After nouns ending in a consonant, the forms -tu and -ta are used (depending on the preceding vowel).
Declension
[edit]Declension of -ytu | ||||||||||||||||||
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absolutive | -ytu | |||||||||||||||||
predicative | -ytu | |||||||||||||||||
subjective | -ytí | |||||||||||||||||
genitive | -ytí | |||||||||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- 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)