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Mongolian
Etymology
Inherited from Classical Mongolian ᠊ᠲᠠᠢ (-tai, ornative suffix), from Middle Mongol ᠲᠠᠢ (tʾy /tai/), ᠊ᠲᠠᠢ (-lʾy /-tai/, feminine singular ornative suffix).
-и- (-i-) was a stem-final vowel kept pronounced in some agglutinative structures, and could be somehow considered as an anaptyxis.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-итай • (-itaj) (to stems ending in -хь (-xʹ), -дь (-dʹ), and -ть (-tʹ), supplanting their silent final -ь (-ʹ))
- (still productive) Forms the ornative form.
- даахь (daaxʹ, “frizzy hair”) + -итай (-itaj) → даахитай (daaxitaj, “have/has/having frizzy hair”)
- задь (zadʹ, “nutmeg”) + -итай (-itaj) → задитай (zaditaj, “have/has/having a nutmeg/nutmegs”)
- Forms the comitative case.
- даахь (daaxʹ, “frizzy hair”) + -итай (-itaj) → даахитай (daaxitaj, “with frizzy hair”)
- задь (zadʹ, “nutmeg”) + -итай (-itaj) → задитай (zaditaj, “with a nutmeg”)
Inflection
| back vowel | front vowel |
| unrounded | -итай
-itaj | -итэй
-itej |
| rounded | -итой
-itoj |