-sar

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Greenlandic

Pronunciation

Suffix

-sar (v-v?, additive?)

  1. (reflexive if used intransitively) tries to cause to
    tissappoq (“have an erection”) -> tissassarpaa (“stimulate the penis of”)

Suffix

-sar (n-v?, additive?)

  1. collects, gathers or finds

Further reading

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Etymology

    From Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-ar, from Proto-Tupian *-at.

    Suffix

    -sar

    1. forms agent nouns from verbs; -or; -er
      • 1622, anonymous author, “Magarefe”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 2 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 28; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:
        Çoõboiçara.
        [So'ombo'isara.]
        Butcher.
        (literally, “Meat shredder.”)

    Derived terms

    Old Tupi terms suffixed with -sar

    Descendants

    • Nheengatu: -sara

    References

    Swedish

    Suffix

    -sar

    1. (colloquial, proscribed) Suffix for the indefinite plural form of some (mostly) loanwords of common gender
      avokado → avokadosar
      avocado → avocados
      bikini → bikinisar
      bikini → bikinis

    Usage notes

    Nouns ending on unstressed (short) -i (e.g. bikini), -o (e.g. avokado), -u (e.g. guru) and -y (e.g. jury) are rare in Swedish and most of them are loanwords. For this reason they do not have a native plural ending and speakers sometimes use a foreign plural -s or alternatively -sar, which can be regarded either as a double plural suffix (-s + -ar) or one unit. Alternatively -s- can be seen as an epenthetic consonant inserted to avoid vowel hiatus, i.e. *avokadoar > avokadosar.

    This suffix is especially common when forming the definite plural by adding -na, as this ending cannot be added onto -s alone. For this reason, some speakers might say avokados in the plural indefinite, but avokadosarna in the plural definite.

    Generally, this ending alongside -s are proscribed and not used in dictionaries, which usually recommend endings like -r or -er even after these four unstressed vowels.

    References

    • “När och varför används former som avokadosar och safarisar? [When and why are forms like avokadosar and safarisar used?]”, in Frågelådan‎, Swedish Language Council, 2019 November 20 (last accessed)
    • Per Ledin (2013 June 21) “Gillar du avokadosar? Några ord om sar-pluralen [Do you like avokadosar? A few words about the -sar plural]”, in På svenska‎, archived from the original on 26 September 2020
    • Gunlög Josefsson (2018) “Avokadosar och kepsar – ett epentetiskt s med olika funktioner [Avokadosar and kepsar – an epenthetic s with many functions]”, in Språk & stil‎, volume NF 28, Uppsala: Uppsala University, →ISSN, pages 5-21

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