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Slovak
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-akъ after a nominal in *-ь or a verb with soft (front) final root vowel.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-iak m
- alternative form of suffix -ák after roots in a (historically) soft or palatalizeable consonant
- divieť + -iak → diviak
- peší + -iak → pešiak
- tretí + -iak → tretiak
- nákladné auto + -iak → nákladniak
- horný + -iak → horniak
- Poľsko + -iak → Poliak
- sušiť + -iak → sušiak
- čmeľ + -iak → čmeliak
- Beňo + -iak → Beniak
Declension
- Declension in case of an inanimate noun according to the declension pattern dub:
- Declension in case of an animate noun according to the declension pattern chlap:
Further reading
- Pauliny, Eugen - Ružička, Jozef - Štolc, Jozef (1968), Slovenská gramatika (in Slovak), 5th edition, Bratislava: Slovenské pedagogické nakladateľstvo, pages 145-152
- -iak in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk