-uri

See also: Appendix:Variations of "uri"

Finnish

Etymology

See -ari; the -u- is probably re-extracted from verb stems ending in -u-.

Suffix

-uri (front vowel harmony variant -yri, linguistic notation -Uri)

  1. Variant of -ari; forms agent nouns.

Derived terms
Finnish terms suffixed with -uri

Ingrian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish -uri.

Pronunciation

Suffix

-uri (front vowel variant -yri)

  1. Used to form agent nouns.

Declension
Declension of -uri (type 5/vahti, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative -uri -urit
genitive -urin -uriin, -uriloin
partitive -uria -urija, -uriloja
illative -urii -urii, -uriloihe
inessive -uriis -uriis, -urilois
elative -urist -uriist, -uriloist
allative -urille -uriille, -uriloille
adessive -uriil -uriil, -uriloil
ablative -urilt -uriilt, -uriloilt
translative -uriks -uriiks, -uriloiks
essive -urinna, -uriin -uriinna, -uriloinna, -uriin, -uriloin
exessive1) -urint -uriint, -uriloint
1) obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

Derived terms
Ingrian terms suffixed with -uri

Romanian

Etymology

From older -ure, from the plurals in -ora of Latin neuter nouns ending in -us (such as tempus, tempora, ancestor of Romanian timp, timpuri). Because the final vowel of Latin -ora was identical in form with the feminine singular ending -a, neuter plural forms ending in -ora were interpreted as feminine; then by analogy with feminine plural forms, the final -a was replaced, first with -e (the feminine plural ending that developed from proto-Romance *-as > *-ai̯ > -e) later with -i (many feminine Romanian nouns such as roată have also replaced an original plural in -e with one in -i).[1][2] Maiden 2016 suggests that, as an alternative to analyzing -uri as a unitary plural suffix, it is also possible to analyze these plurals as ending in a root extension -ur- followed by the plural ending -i.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /urʲ/

Suffix

-uri n pl or f pl

  1. Marks the plural of certain neuter (and more rarely feminine) nouns.

Declension
declension of -uri (plural only)
plural
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (niște) -uri -urile
genitive/dative (unor) -uri -urilor
vocative -urilor

References
  1. Nicolae, Andreea and Scontras, Gregory, 2015. "The Progression of Gender from Latin to Romanian," page 87
  2. Maiden, Martin. January 2016. "Ambiguity in Romanian word-structure. The structure of plurals in ...uri" Revue Roumaine de Linguistique 61(1):3-12
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