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Northern Kurdish
Etymology 1
From Proto-Iranian, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-ikos; cognates include Sanskrit -कस (-kasa), Proto-Slavic *-ъkъ, Latin -icus, Old English -iġ, English -y.
Alternative forms
- -yî — appended to vowel-final words
Suffix
-î (Arabic spelling ـی)
- Added to nouns and adjectives to form adjectives meaning “having the quality of”: -y, -ish, -like
- av (“water”) + -î → avî (“watery, liquid”)
- bajar (“city”) + -î → bajarî (“urban”)
- zîv (“silver”) + -î → zîvî (“silvery, argentous”)
- Added to placenames (or roots thereof) or ethnonyms to form adjectives meaning “of or pertaining to”: -ian, -ese, -ic, -ish
- kurd (“Kurd”) + -î → kurdî (“Kurdish”)
- ereb (“Arab”) + -î → erebî (“Arabic”)
- Çîn (“China”) + -î → çînî (“Chinese”)
- Yewnan(istan) (“Greece”) + -î → yewnanî (“Greek”)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Compare Persian ـی (-i).
Suffix
-î (Arabic spelling ـی)
- Used to derive abstract nouns from adjectives: -ness, -ity, -hood
- qenc (“good”) + -î → qencî (“goodness”)
- xirab (“bad”) + -î → xirabî (“badness, evil”)
- sor (“red”) + -î → sorî (“redness, ruddiness”)
Derived terms
See also
Etymology 3
From Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti, athematic root present of the root *h₁es- (“to be”).
Suffix
-î (Arabic spelling ـی)
- Used for conjugation of the second person singular (tu):
- tu dibêjî ― you speak
- tu hatî ― you came
Etymology 4
Suffix
-î (Arabic spelling ـی)
- Added to placenames to make a gendered noun of origin or nationality:
- gund (“village”) + -î → gundî (“villager”)
- his or her:
- ser (“head”) + -î → serî (“his head, her head”), same as "serê wê/wî"
- dest (“hand”) + -î → destî (“his hand, her hand”), same as "destê wê/wî"
- (oral, nonstandard) Used for present tense conjugation of the third person singular:
- ew dibêjî ― he speaks
Derived terms
Romanian
Etymology
Inherited from Latin -īre, the ending of the present active infinitive form of fourth conjugation verbs. Cognate with Spanish ir and French -ir, Italian -ire, etc.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-î
- A suffix forming infinitives of many verbs.
Usage notes
- Most verbs with infinitives in -î are marked by the once-inchoative infix -ăsc- in many parts of their conjugation, as well as in various derived words; two such verbs are a urî (“to hate”) and a hotărî (“to decide”).
- A sizable group of verbs have infinitives in -î but do not use the infix -ăsc-, and are otherwise fairly regular; these include, among others, the common verb a coborî (“to descend”).
- There is a variant form, -i, derived from the same Latin source.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
Walloon
Pronunciation
Suffix
-î
- Indicates a person who does (as a profession) the action described by the root word. Roughly equivalent to English -er.
- A verb ending for infinitives.
Derived terms