-aa
See also: Appendix:Variations of "aa"
Fula
Suffix
-aa
- (Pular) middle voice suffix
- irde (“to cover with sand”) + -aa → iraade (“to be covered with sand, to be buried, to bury oneself”)
Usage notes
- Placed after a verb root to indicate the middle voice
Greenlandic
Usage notes
Causes nasalization of a preceding stop consonant by
- -k > -n(g)-
- -t > -n-
- -q > -rng-
May freely be connected by hyphenation instead of assimilation, in which case the word to which the enclitic appends is unchanged; this difference is purely orthographic, and stops are still nasalized.
Further reading
- DAKA
- Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 29, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014
- Fortescue, M.: "Basic Structures and Processes in West Greenlandic" in ARCTIC LANGUAGES: An Awakening, p. 323. UNESCO 1990.
Ojibwe
Final
-aa
- be in a state or condition
Derived terms
Suffix
-aa
- A suffix denoting the first-person singular, second-person singular or indefinite actor, to third-person singular object independent form of a transitive animate verb (vta)
Usage notes
-aa acts together with a personal prefix to denote the first or second-person, or in the absence of a prefix to denote an indefinite actor.
Ottawa
References
Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 385
Tlingit
Usage notes
- The preceding syllable will generally have a high tone after affixing.
Suffix
-aa
- Used at the end of verbs to form an agent noun, effectively meaning "the one that does (verb)".
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