-ri
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ri"
FinnishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Probably conflated from multiple sources:
- borrowed from Old Norse -ari (“suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs”), from Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz, from Latin -ārius; particularly as part of other loanwords which have then influenced the use of the suffix
- -ra, -r + -i
SuffixEdit
-ri
- Used to create names of occupations from nouns or verbs.
- kartta (“map”) + -ri → kartturi (“navigator”)
- vaate (“garment”) + -ri → vaatturi (“tailor”)
- duunata (“to work”) + -ri → duunari (“worker”)
- puutarha (“garden”) + -ri → puutarhuri (“gardener”)
- urut (“organ”) + -ri → urkuri (“organist”)
- saha (“saw, sawmill”) + -ri → sahuri (“sawmill operator”)
- rokki (“rock music”) + -ri → rokkari (“rocker”)
- (colloquial) General denominal noun suffix.
- (colloquial) Denominal suffix used to clip nouns.
- ostoskeskus + -ri → ostari
- ryynimakkara + -ri → ryynäri
- poskisauhu + -ri → poskari
- (slang) Used to create terms meaning "supporter of something"
- kommunisti (“communist”) + -ri → kommari
- sosiaalidemokraatti (“social democrat”) + -ri → demari
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of -ri (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | -ri | -rit | |
genitive | -rin | -rien -reiden -reitten | |
partitive | -ria | -reita -reja | |
illative | -riin | -reihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | -ri | -rit | |
accusative | nom. | -ri | -rit |
gen. | -rin | ||
genitive | -rin | -rien -reiden -reitten | |
partitive | -ria | -reita -reja | |
inessive | -rissa | -reissa | |
elative | -rista | -reista | |
illative | -riin | -reihin | |
adessive | -rilla | -reilla | |
ablative | -rilta | -reilta | |
allative | -rille | -reille | |
essive | -rina | -reina | |
translative | -riksi | -reiksi | |
instructive | — | -rein | |
abessive | -ritta | -reitta | |
comitative | — | -reineen |
Possessive forms of -ri (type paperi) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | -rini | -rimme |
2nd person | -risi | -rinne |
3rd person | -rinsa |
Derived termsEdit
IgboEdit
SuffixEdit
-ri
- Owerri and Umuahia standard spelling of -li.
JamamadíEdit
SuffixEdit
-ri m (feminine -ro)
- (evidential) identifies an action as certain and having occurred in the near past
ReferencesEdit
- 2008 (originally 1976), Robert Campbell, Verification in Jamamadi Quotations, Associação Internacional de Linguística SIL - Brasil, page 4.
JapaneseEdit
RomanizationEdit
-ri
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
-ri
- Alternative form of -erie
PurepechaEdit
SuffixEdit
-ri
- genitive suffix
ReferencesEdit
- Estudios de lengua y cultura amerindias II (1998), section on P'urhépecha
QuechuaEdit
SuffixEdit
-ri
DescendantsEdit
See alsoEdit
RomanianEdit
SuffixEdit
-ri