-taj
Nivaclé
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edit-taj (plural -tas)
- similative suffx, used with names of animals and plants to indicate a different species
Usage notes
edit- Epenthetic i often appears before the suffix when preceded by a consonant to break disallowed consonant clusters.
References
edit- Fabre, Alain (2016) Gramática de la lengua Nivacle (familia Mataguayo, Chaco Paraguayo) (Lincom Studies in Native American Linguistics 78) (in Spanish), Munich: Lincom, →ISBN, page 139.