-ya
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ya"
Bambara edit
Suffix edit
-ya
Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin edit
Etymology edit
From western Japanese や (ya, copula).
Particle edit
-ya
- to be
References edit
- Komei Hosokawa (1987) Malay talk on boat: an account of Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin[1] (in Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin)
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
-ya
Kambera edit
Pronoun edit
-ya
- third person singular accusative enclitic
See also edit
Murui Huitoto edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Cognates include Minica Huitoto -ya and Nüpode Huitoto -ya.
Classifier edit
-ya
- Classifier for vehicles.
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Suffix edit
-ya
- Alternative form of -a
References edit
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 134
Pitjantjatjara edit
Pronoun edit
-ya (third person plural nominative, bound form of tjana)
Usage notes edit
Bound pronouns can be used instead of the regular "long form" pronouns. They act as clitics that attach to the last word of the first noun phrase in the sentence, or the conjunctions ka or munu if present.
Related terms edit
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
First person | ngayulu (I) Bound form: -ṉa |
ngali (we two) Bound form: -li |
nganaṉa (we, more than two) Bound form: -la |
Second person | nyuntu (you) Bound form: -n |
nyupali (you two) | nyura (you, more than two) |
Third person | paluṟu (he/she/it) | pula (they two) | tjana (they, more than two) Bound form: -ya |
Quechua edit
Suffix edit
-ya
- to become
Derived terms edit
Swahili edit
Alternative forms edit
- (after a vowel) -za
Suffix edit
-ya
- (often with spirantization of the preceding consonant) causative suffix
Derived terms edit
Teposcolula Mixtec edit
Suffix edit
-ya
- Forms reverential terms.
Derived terms edit
Ye'kwana edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Suffix edit
-ya
- Forms the singular of the recent past perfective tense of the verb ei (“to be”).
- Forms the singular of the distant past perfective tense of the verb ei (“to be”) when both the agent and patient (if there is one) of the verb are third-person.
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Suffix edit
-ya
- Allomorph of -a (nonpast or past imperfective suffix) used for stems that end in i.
References edit
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[3], Lyon, pages 215–216