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Cebuano
Prefix
man-
- alternative spelling of mang-
Kapampangan
Prefix
man-
- verbal affix used to indicate actor focused progressive tense
Malagasy
Prefix
man-
- Prefix used to form active transitive verbs, and sometimes used to form adjectives.
Alternative forms
- mam- before bilabial consonants.
Tagalog
Pronunciation
Prefix
man- (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜈ᜔)
- Alternative form of mang-, if the root starts with alveolar consonants, such as ⟨d⟩, ⟨l⟩, ⟨n⟩, ⟨r⟩, ⟨s⟩, or ⟨t⟩, which gets nasally assimilated to the prefix ending when starts with voiceless alveolar consonants, ⟨s⟩ and ⟨t⟩ or sometimes ⟨d⟩.
- man- + digma (“war”) → mandirigma (“warrior”)
- man- + dalangin (“prayer”) → manalangin (“to pray”)
- man- + loko (“trickery”) → manloko (“to trick”)
- man- + nood (“view”) → manonood (“viewer”)
- man- + silip (“peep”) → maninilip (“peeping tom”)
- man- + Tagalog (“Tagalog language”) → managalog (“to speak Tagalog”)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “man-”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Ye'kwana
Pronunciation
Prefix
man-
- Allomorph of mön- (first-person agent/second-person patient prefix) used for stems that begin with a vowel a.
Inflection
Ye'kwana personal markers
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pronoun
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noun possessor/
series II verb argument
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postposition object
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series I verb argument
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| transitive patient
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intransitive patient-like
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intransitive agent-like
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transitive agent
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| first person
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ewü
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y-, ∅-, ü-, u-1
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w-, wi-
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| first person dual inclusive
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küwü
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k-, kü-, ku-, ki-
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k-, kii-, ki-1
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| second person
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amödö
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ö-, öy-/öd-, o-, oy-/od-, a-, ay-/ad-
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m-, mi-
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| first person dual exclusive
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nña
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y-/d-, ch-, ∅-, i-1
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chö-
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∅-
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n-, ni-
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| third person
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tüwü
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n-, ni-
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| distant past third person
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—
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kün-, kun-, kin-, ken-, küm-, kum-, kim-, kini-
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| coreferential/reflexive
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—
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t-, tü-, tu-, ti-, te-
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—
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| reciprocal
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—
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öö-
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- With following vowel lengthened if in an unreduced open syllable.
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series I verb argument:
transitive agent and transitive patient
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| first person > second person
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mön-, man-, mon-, möm-, möni-
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| first person dual exclusive > second person
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| second person > first person
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k-, kü-, ku-, ki-
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| second person > first person dual exclusive
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| third person > any person X …or… any person X > third person
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see person X in the chart above
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