-eg
See also: Appendix:Variations of "eg"
Breton edit
Etymology edit
Suffix edit
-eg
See also edit
References edit
- Ian Press (1986) A grammar of modern Breton, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 217
Emilian edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
-eg
- (enclitic, after a consonant) Alternative form of ge
- J-eg vān edmān. ― They go there tomorrow. (imperative, singular)
- J-eg dān da fêr. ― They give her trouble.
Related terms edit
Emilian personal pronouns (weak forms)
Number | Person | Gender | Proclitic | Enclitic | Aphetic | |||||||||
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N | A | D | R | N | A | D | R | N | A | D | R | |||
Singular | First | — | aj- | m’ | -ja | -em | -ja | -m | ||||||
Second | — | t- | t’ | -et | -t | |||||||||
Third | Masculine | l- | g’ | s’ | -el | -eg | -es | -l | -g | -s | ||||
Feminine | l’ | -la | -la | |||||||||||
Plural | First | — | aj- | s’ | -ja | -es | -ja | -s | ||||||
Second | — | aj- | v’ | -ev | -v | |||||||||
Third | Masculine | j- | g’ | s’ | -i | -eg | -es | -j | -g | -s | ||||
Feminine | elj- | -li | -li |
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
-eg
- (frequentative suffix) Added to a stem - often an onomatopoeia - to form a verb expressing a (quickly) repeating or continuous action.
- ketyeg (“to tick (like a clock)”)
- (nominal suffix) Added to a verb or a stem to form a noun or an adjective.
Usage notes edit
- (frequentative suffix) Harmonic variants:
- (nominal suffix) Harmonic variants:
Derived terms edit
See also edit
Luxembourgish edit
Etymology edit
From Old High German -ag, -ig, from Proto-Germanic *-agaz, *-īgaz, *-ugaz, each a variant of a common suffix *-gaz.
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
-eg
- -y, forming adjectives from nouns or verb stems
Derived terms edit
Middle English edit
Suffix edit
-eg
- Alternative form of -y (“-y”)
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /ɛɡ/
- (North Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /aɡ/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ɛɡ/
Suffix edit
-eg
- a language, -ic, -ish
- a science, a study, -y, -ics
- peiriant (“machine, engine”) + -eg → peirianneg (“engineering”)
- rheswm (“reason”) + -eg → rhesymeg (“logic”)
- electron (“electron”) + -eg → electroneg (“electronics”)
Usage notes edit
The suffix -eg is feminine but when it refers to a language, the resulting derived does not cause the soft mutation of qualifying adjectives as other feminine nouns do, especially when the adjective defines a specific or specialised kind of language.[1]
Derived terms edit
References edit
Further reading edit
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “-eg”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies