-tto

Finnish edit

Etymology edit

-tta +‎ -i (labialized -tto < -tta-i)

Suffix edit

-tto (front vowel harmony variant -ttö, linguistic notation -ttO) (rare)

Forms some nouns, chiefly for places.

Derived terms edit

Finnish terms suffixed with -tto

Saho edit

Alternative forms edit

(Southern Saho) -yto

Etymology edit

Related to Afar -ytu, -ytó.

Pronunciation edit

(masculine) IPA^(key): /-tːo/
(feminine) IPA^(key): /-tˈto/

Suffix edit

-tto

(Northern Saho) Used to form singulative nouns from their collective counterparts.

Usage notes edit

If both a masculine and feminine singulatives of the collective noun exist, the feminine form -ttö is used to distinguish it from the masculine.

Declension edit

(masculine)

Declension of -tto
absolutive	-tto
subjective	-tti
genitive	-tti

(feminine)

Declension of -tto
absolutive	-tto
subjective	-tto
genitive	-tton

Derived terms edit

Saho terms suffixed with -tto

References edit

^{The template Template:R:ssy:Banti:2005 does not use the parameter(s): 1=+
Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.}Giorgio Banti, Moreno Vergari (2005) “A sketch of Saho Grammar”, in Journal of Eritrean Studies, volume 4, numbers 1-2, pages 100-131

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