-h
Afar edit
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
-h
- Marks the benefactive case: for ...'s benefit
- Marks the allative case: towards
- Marks the prolative case: by way of
- Marks the instrumental case: using; with
- Marks the adessive case: on; on top of
- Marks the temporal case: during; on
- Marks the causal case: because of
- Marks the estimative case: of about
- Marks the assertive mood: really
- (+ én or geytimé) Marks the verbal noun
- Used after the genitive case of nouns ending on a vowel, before words beginning with a vowel
References edit
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 357
Classical Nahuatl edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Suffix edit
-h
- Used to form the plural of absolutive noun forms.
- Examples:
Usage notes edit
Some nouns pluralized with -h undergo the reduplication of their first or second syllable.
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Suffix edit
-h
- Forms the plural of verbs. Only used for animate subjects.
- titītza (“to stretch something”) → quititītzah (“They stretch it”)
- itta (“to see something”) → quittah (“They see it”)
- tolīnia (“to bother someone, to make suffer”) → ammotolīniah (“You (plrl.) suffer, You are bothered”)
- titītza (“to stretch something”) → motitītzah (“They stretch (themselves)”)
- itta (“to see something”) → tiquittah (“We see it”)
- pāca (“to wash something”) → tlapācah (“They wash something, they wash things”)
Karelian edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
-h
Derived terms edit
Category Karelian terms suffixed with -h not found
References edit
- P. M. Zaykov (1999) Грамматика Карельского языка (фонетика и морфология) [Grammar of the Karelian language (phonetics and morphology)], →ISBN, page 47
Maltese edit
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
-h m
- Alternative form of -u (“him, it”), used after a vowel