-zi
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "zi"
Murui Huitoto
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Classifier
[edit]-zi
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 197
Swahili
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (after a consonant) -i
Etymology
[edit]What are now vowel-final verb stems originally had an -l-, which resurfaces whenever a suffix is added. After addition of the suffix -i, this -l- was then spirantized to -z-.
Suffix
[edit]-zi
- suffix used after a vowel in nominal forms of verbs, in conjunction with a noun class prefix