-ya

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ya"

Bambara

Suffix

-ya

  1. forms abstract nouns from adjectives or nouns
    ‎teri (“friend”) + ‎-ya → ‎teriya (“friendship”)
    ‎jan (“long”) + ‎-ya → ‎janya (“length”)

Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin

Etymology

From western Japanese や (ya, copula).

Particle

-ya

  1. to be

References
  • Komei Hosokawa (1987) Malay talk on boat: an account of Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin‎ (in Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin)

Japanese

Romanization

-ya

  1. Rōmaji transcription of や

Kambera

Pronoun

-ya

  1. third person singular accusative enclitic

See also
Kambera pronominal clitics
Nominative Genitive Accusative Dative
1sg ku- -nggu -ka -ngga
2sg mu- (u-) -mu -kau -nggau
3sg na- -na -ya -nya
1pl.incl ta- -nda -ta -nda
1pl.excl ma- -ma -kama -nggama
2pl mi- (i-) -mi -kami (-kai) -nggami (-nggai)
3pl da- -da -ha -nja

Murui Huitoto

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [-d͡ʒa]

Etymology 1

Cognates include Minica Huitoto -ya and Nüpode Huitoto -ya.

Classifier

-ya

  1. Classifier for vehicles.
Derived terms
Murui Huitoto terms suffixed with -ya

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Suffix

-ya

  1. Alternative form of -a

References
  • Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 134

Pitjantjatjara

Pronoun

-ya (third person plural nominative, bound form of tjana)

  1. they

Usage notes

Bound pronouns can be used instead of the regular "long form" pronouns. They act as clitics that attach to the last word of the first noun phrase in the sentence, or the conjunctions ka or munu if present.

Pitjantjatjara personal pronouns (nominative case)
SingularDualPlural
First person ngayulu (I)
Bound form: -ṉa		 ngali (we two)
Bound form: -li		 nganaṉa (we, more than two)
Bound form: -la
Second person nyuntu (you)
Bound form: -n		 nyupali (you two) nyura (you, more than two)
Third person paluṟu (he/she/it) pula (they two) tjana (they, more than two)
Bound form: -ya

Quechua

Suffix

-ya

  1. to become
    ‎tuta (“night, darkness”) + ‎-ya → ‎tutayay (“to become dark”)
    ‎unu (“liquid”) + ‎-ya → ‎unuyay (“to melt”)

Derived terms
Quechua terms suffixed with -ya

Swahili

Alternative forms
  • (after a vowel) -za

Suffix

-ya

  1. (often with spirantization of the preceding consonant) causative suffix
    Near-synonyms: -isha/-esha, -iza/-eza
    1. used after verbs stems ending -k- (but not in -ek- or -ik-) with spirantization of the -k- to -sh-
      ‎-chemka (“to boil”) + ‎-ya → ‎-chemsha (“to bring to a boil”)
    2. used in some verbs interchangeably with -isha/-esha
      ‎-ogopa (“to fear”) + ‎-ya → ‎-ogofya (“to frighten”)
    3. (nonproductive) used to construct a causative verb with slightly different meaning
      ‎-ona (“to see”) + ‎-ya → ‎-onya (“to warn”)
      ‎-lala (“to sleep”) + ‎-ya → ‎-laza (“to put to bed”)

Derived terms
Swahili terms suffixed with -ya
  • Swahili causative verbs

Teposcolula Mixtec

Suffix

-ya

  1. Forms reverential terms.

Derived terms
Teposcolula Mixtec terms suffixed with -ya

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [-ja]

Suffix

-ya

  1. Forms the singular of the recent past perfective tense of the verb ei (“to be”).
  2. Forms the singular of the distant past perfective tense of the verb ei (“to be”) when both the agent and patient (if there is one) of the verb are third-person.
Derived terms

Suffix

-ya

  1. Allomorph of -a (nonpast or past imperfective suffix) used for stems that end in i.

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, pages 215–216
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