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Turkish
| preceding vowel
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| A / I
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E / İ
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O / U
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Ö / Ü
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| -tı
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-ti
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-tu
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-tü
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Pronunciation
Suffix
-tü
- Form of -tı after the vowels Ö / Ü.
- al- (“to take”) + -ın (“to take offense”) + -tı → alıntı (“quotation, citation”)
- ak- (“to flow”) + -ın + -tı → akıntı (“flow, current, stream”)
- çıt (“click or crack sound”) + -ır + -tı → çıtırtı (“clicking, cracking”)
- mor (“purple”) + -ar (“to turn purple”) + -tı → morartı (“bruise, a purplish spot”)
Ye'kwana
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *-tɨ. Compare Wayana -tï, Kari'na -ty, Waiwai -tï, and similar possessive suffixes in other Cariban languages.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-tü
- Marks a noun as possessed; used only with a handful of nouns that end in -tö.
- (non-productive) Forms certain nouns whose possessed forms take no further suffix, with no clear semantic contribution.
Derived terms
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “-tü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, pages 113–114, 119
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291