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Hindi
Etymology
From Old Hindi -आई (-āī). As this suffix can be applied to both nominals and verbs, possibly from a merger of:
Pronunciation
- (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /ɑː.iː/,
Suffix
-आई • (-āī)
- Forms feminine abstract nouns.
Declension
Declension of -आई (fem ind ī-stem)
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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-आई
-āī
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-आइयाँ
-āiyā̃
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| oblique
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-आई
-āī
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-आइयों
-āiyõ
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| vocative
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-आई
-āī
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-आइयो
-āiyo
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Derived terms
References
- Bahri, Hardev (1989) “-आई”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “-आई”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 232