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Serbo-Croatian
Suffix
-иво (Latin spelling -ivo)
- Suffix appended to words to create a neuter noun, usually denoting a material or an object.
Ukrainian
Etymology
Inherited from Old Ruthenian -иво (-ivo), from Old East Slavic -иво (-ivo), from Proto-Slavic *-ivo.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-иво • (-yvo)
- deverbal suffix used to form nouns, that denote a product of the activity described by the verb
- пекти́ (pektý, “to bake”) + -иво (-yvo) → пе́чиво (péčyvo, “biscuit, cookie, pasty”)
- моро́зити (morózyty, “to freeze”) + -иво (-yvo) → моро́зиво (morózyvo, “ice cream”)
- жа́ти (žáty, “to reap”) + -иво (-yvo) → жни́во (žnývo, “harvest”)
- ви́діти (výdity, “to see”) + -иво (-yvo) → ви́диво (výdyvo, “sight, vision”)
- deverbal suffix used to form nouns, that denote an instrument or material used to perform the activity described by the verb
- добри́ти (dobrýty, “to fertilize”) + -иво (-yvo) → до́бриво (dóbryvo, “fertilizer”)
- пали́ти (palýty, “to burn, to consume fuel”) + -иво (-yvo) → па́ливо (pályvo, “fuel”)
- креса́ти (kresáty, “to strike fire/sparks”) + -иво (-yvo) → (dialectal) креси́во (kresývo, “tinderbox, to firestriker”)
- denominal suffix used to form nouns, that denote instrumental and resultant terms
- (colloquial or achaic) ого́нь (ohónʹ, “fire”) + -иво (-yvo) → огни́во (ohnývo, “tinderbox, to firestriker”)
- м'я́со (mʺjáso, “meat”) + -иво (-yvo) → (colloquial) м'яси́во (mʺjasývo, “meat dish”)
Derived terms