-ava

See also: ava, Ava, avá, āva, 'ava, and åvå

Italian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.va/
• Rhymes: -ava
• Hyphenation: -à‧va

Suffix

-ava (non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix)

1. used with a stem to form the third-person imperfect of regular -are verbs

Latvian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Suffix

-ava

1. Used to form nouns from verbs, sometimes from adjectives.

Synonyms

• -uve

Derived terms

Latvian terms suffixed with -ava

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin -ābam and Latin -ābat.

Suffix

-ava (1st conj.)

1. a suffix indicating the first-person singular indicative imperfect of a verb in -ar

   ‎amar (“to love”) + ‎-ava → ‎amava (“[I] used to love”)

   ‎cantar (“to sing”) + ‎-ava → ‎cantava (“[I] used to sing”)

2. a suffix indicating the third-person singular indicative imperfect of a verb in -ar

   ‎amar (“to love”) + ‎-ava → ‎amava (“[he/she/it] used to love”)

   ‎cantar (“to sing”) + ‎-ava → ‎cantava (“[he/she/it] used to sing”)

Descendants

• Galician: -aba
• Portuguese: -ava

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese -ava, from Latin -ābam and Latin -ābat. Compare Galician and Spanish -aba.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.vɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.vɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.va/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈa.vɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈa.vɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈa.bɐ/ [ˈa.βɐ]

• Rhymes: -avɐ

Suffix

-ava

1. a suffix indicating the first-person singular indicative imperfect of a verb in -ar

   ‎amar (“to love”) + ‎-ava → ‎amava (“[I] used to love”)

   ‎cantar (“to sing”) + ‎-ava → ‎cantava (“[I] used to sing”)

2. a suffix indicating the third-person singular indicative imperfect of a verb in -ar

   ‎amar (“to love”) + ‎-ava → ‎amava (“[he/she/it] used to love”)

   ‎cantar (“to sing”) + ‎-ava → ‎cantava (“[he/she/it] used to sing”)

See also

• -ia

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Suffix

-ava (Cyrillic spelling -ава)

1. Suffix appended to words to create a feminine noun, usually denoting the result of a verbal stem it's appended onto.

See also

• -njava

Spanish

Suffix

-ava

1. feminine singular of -avo

Teanu

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *kapak (“to flap wings; wing”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kapak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ava/

Verb

-ava

1. to fly
2. to travel by plane

References

• François, Alexandre. 2021. Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands). Dictionaria 15. 1-1877. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5653063. – entry ~ava.
• François, Alexandre. 2021. Online Teanu–English dictionary, with equivalents in Lovono and Tanema. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. – entry ~ava.
• Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021), “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.