-aa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "aa"

Fula

Suffix

-aa

  1. (Pular) middle voice suffix
    irde (to cover with sand) + -aairaade (to be covered with sand, to be buried, to bury oneself)

Usage notes

  • Placed after a verb root to indicate the middle voice

Greenlandic

Enclitic

-aa

  1. vocative enclitic; marks an address

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

  1. be in a state or condition

Derived terms

Suffix

-aa

  1. 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

Final

-aa (inanimate intransitive)

  1. to be...

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

  1. Used at the end of verbs to form an agent noun, effectively meaning "the one that does (verb)".

Derived terms

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