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Afar
Etymology
Related to Saho -tto, -yto.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ytu (feminine -ytó)
- Used to form masculine singulative nouns.
- Used to form masculine diminutive nouns.
- Used to form masculine nouns denoting origin, characteristic or occupation.
Usage notes
- Used after nouns ending in the vowel -a.
- After the vowels -e, -i, -o, -u the form -yta is used.
- After nouns ending in a consonant, the forms -tu and -ta are used (depending on the preceding vowel).
Declension
| Declension of -ytu
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| absolutive
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-ytu
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| predicative
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-ytu
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| subjective
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-ytí
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| genitive
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-ytí
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Derived terms
References
- E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 228
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)