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Dungan
Etymology
Cognate with Mandarin 了 (le).
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Pronunciation
Suffix
-ли • (-li)
- Marks the perfective aspect.
- Alternative form: 哩
Nogai
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *-lig.[1] Cognates with Turkish -li, Uyghur ـلىك (-lik).
Verb
-ли • (-li)
- Forms adjectives denoting possession of a thing, containing a thing, with a thing etc.
- кир (kir, “dirt”) + -ли (-li) → кирли (kirli, “dirty”)
- бала (bala, “child”) + -лы (-lı) → балалы (balalı, “that who has a child”)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “-liğ/-lig/-luğ/-lüg”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page xli