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Solombala English
Etymology
Origin uncertain. Likely from Germanic infinitive suffix *-aną (< PIE: *-onom) than Slavic instrumental *-omъ. Changing from /n/ to /m/ in pidgin spellings seems a dissimilation. Cognate with Russenorsk -om, -um.
Suffix
-омъ (-om)
- An ending added to almost every verb in any verb tense.
- English buy + -омъ (-om) → баёмъ (bajom, “to buy”)
- English drink + -омъ (-om) → дринкомъ (drinkom, “to drink”)
- Russian смотрѣ́ть (smotrě́tʹ, “to look”) + -омъ (-om) → смотромъ (smotrom, “to look”)
- (conditionally) English come + -омъ (-om) → комъ (kom, “to come”)
Derived terms
References
- Laakso, Johanna (2001) “Reflections on the verb suffix -om in Russenorsk and some preliminary remarks on “docking” in language contact”, in Maticsák, Sándor, Zaicz, Gábor, Lahdelma, Tuomo, editors, Ünnepi könyv Keresztes László tiszteletére (Folia Uralica Debreceniensia; 8), Debrecen, Jyväskylä, pages 315–324
- Broch, Ingvild (1996) “Solombala-English in Archangel”, in Jahr, Ernst Håkon, Broch, Ingvild, editors, Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs (TiLSM); 88), reprint edition, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, published 2011, →DOI, →ISBN, page 94 of 93–98
- Perekhvalskaya, Elena V. (2014) Русские пиджины [Russian pidgins] (in Russian), Moscow: Direct-Media, →ISBN, page 218