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Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic ـِيَّات (-iyyāt), feminine plural of the derivational suffix ـِيّ (-iyy), whence Maltese -i. Natively used with nouns in -ija, then probably first extended to Sicilian borrowings in -i and finally also to consonant-final borrowings.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ijiet
- a common plural suffix for nouns
- used with native nouns in -ija as well as some borrowings with this ending (most Romance words have -iji instead)
- tfittxija (“search”) + -ijiet → tfittxijiet (“searches”)
- gawwija (“seagull”) + -ijiet → gawwijiet (“seagulls”)
- used with borrowed nouns in -i or consonants as well as a small number of native nouns
- impressjoni (“impression”) + -ijiet → impressjonijiet (“impressions”)
- patt (“pact”) + -ijiet → pattijiet (“pacts”)
- sptar (“hospital”) + -ijiet → sptarijiet (“hospitals”)
- omm (“mother”) + -ijiet → ommijiet (“mothers”)
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