-tan
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tan"
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
-tan
Pipil edit
Adverb edit
-tan
- near.
Turkish edit
Suffix edit
-tan
- Alternative form of -dan
Ye'kwana edit
Alternative forms edit
- -chan (allomorph before i)
Etymology edit
From the singular/third-person form -ta.
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
-tan
- Directs that the command or request expressed by a verb must be executed somewhere else and not at the place where the order was given when the verb is in the non-third-person plural, i.e. when the suffix is followed by -tö.
References edit
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, page 235