-m
See also: Appendix:Variations of "m"
Afar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /-m/ [-m]
Suffix
-m
- Used to form (pro)nouns taking on the quality of the suffixed determiners, numbers, verbs and nouns.
Usage notes
- When added to a noun, the suffix is added to a genitive:
- áwka (“boy”) + -m → awkím (“the boy's thing”)
Derived terms
References
- E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 236
Estonian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Finnic *-mpi, cognate to Finnish -mpi.
Suffix
-m
- Forms comparative adjectives.
Etymology 2
From Proto-Finnic *-ma, cognate to Finnish -ma.
Suffix
-m
- Forms nouns from verbs.
Derived terms
Hungarian
Etymology 1
Possibly from Proto-Uralic *mᴕ̈ (“I”); see also én (“I”). Cognate with Northern Mansi -м (-m, “my”).
Suffix
-m
- (possessive suffix) my (first-person singular, single possession)
- (personal suffix) First-person singular personal suffix:
- Definite forms of transitive verbs (followed by a linking vowel in indicative present/past and subjunctive moods; with no linking vowel in conditional mood).
- Indefinite forms of -ik verbs.
- Forming conjugated infinitives (here: “for me to do something”).
- Declined and postpositional forms of the first-person personal pronoun én (“I”).
Usage notes
- (possessive suffix) Variants:
- -m is added to words ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-.
- -am is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -om is added to the other back-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -em is added to unrounded (and some rounded) front-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -öm is added to most rounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant
Etymology 2
It can be traced back to the Proto-Uralic *-m.[1]
Suffix
-m
- (noun-forming suffix, obsolete) Added to a verb (or rarely to a noun) to form a noun. No longer productive in this sense.
- (frequentative verb-forming suffix, obsolete) No longer productive in this sense.
- élemedett (“elderly”)
See also
- Category:Hungarian noun forms
- Appendix:Hungarian possessive suffixes
References
- ^ -m in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Ilocano
Pronoun
-m
See also
| Person | Number | Absolutive | Ergative | Oblique | Possessive | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disjunctive | Enclitic | Enclitic3 | bági form | kukua form | |||
| First | singular | siak | -ak | -ko, -k | kaniak | bagik | kukuak, kuak |
| dual | data, sita1 | -ta | kaniata, kadata | bagita | kukuata | ||
| plural inclusive | datayo, sitayo1 | -tayo, -tay | kaniatayo, kadatayo | bagitayo | kukuatayo | ||
| plural exclusive | dakami, sikami1 | -kami, -kam | -mi | kaniami, kadakami | bagimi | kukuami | |
| Second | singular | sika | -ka | -mo, -m | kaniam, kenka | bagim | kukuam |
| plural | dakayo, sikayo1 | -kayo, -kay | -yo | kaniayo, kadakayo | bagiyo | kukuayo | |
| Third | singular | isu, isuna | Ø2 | -na | kaniana, kenkuana | bagina | kukuana |
| plural | isuda | -da | kaniada, kadakuada | bagida | kukuada | ||
| Actor | Patient | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| siak | data | datayo | dakami | sika | dakayo | isu5 | isuda | |
| siak | bagik4 | — | — | — | -ka | -kayo | -ko, -k | -ko ida, -k ida |
| data | — | bagita4 | — | — | — | — | -ta | -ta ida |
| datayo | — | — | bagitayo4 | — | — | — | -tayo | -tayo ida |
| dakami | — | — | — | bagimi4 | -daka | -dakayo | -mi | -mi ida |
| sika | -nak | — | — | -nakami | bagim4 | — | -mo, -m | -mo ida, -m ida |
| dakayo | -dak | -data | — | -dakami | — | bagiyo4 | -yo | -yo ida |
| isu | -nak | -nata | -natayo | -nakami | -naka | -nakayo | bagina4, -na | -na ida |
| isuda | -dak | -data | -datayo | -dakami | -daka | -dakayo | -da | bagida4, -da ida |
Marshallese
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Suffix
-m
References
Northern Kurdish
Suffix
-m
- first-person singular suffix
- têm ('I come.')
- çûm ('I went.')
Alternative forms
- -im (after a consonant)
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *-mus.[1]
Suffix
-m m
- Forms verbal nouns of A III (hiatus) verbs
Inflection
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | -m | -mL | -mae |
| vocative | -m | -mL | -mu |
| accusative | -mN | -mL | -mu |
| genitive | -moH, -maH | -mo, -ma | -maeN |
| dative | -mL | -maib | -maib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
References
- ^ Gordon, Randall Clark (2012), Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, pages 108-111
Palula
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /-m/
Suffix
-m
- Plural suffix (with m-declension nouns)
References
- Henrik Liljegren; Naseem Haider (2011), “-m”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)[1], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m/
- Rhymes: -m
- Syllabification: -m
Etymology 1
From earlier -śm, a contraction of Old Polish jeśm, from Proto-Slavic *esmь.
Suffix
-m
Alternative forms
- -em (after a consonant)
See also
Etymology 2
Inherited from Old Polish -m, from Proto-Slavic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European [Term?].
Suffix
-m
Further reading
- -m in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Quechua
Alternative forms
- -mi (after consonants)
- -n (Cuzco-Collao)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /-m/
- (Ayacucho) IPA(key): [-m]
- (Cuzco-Collao) IPA(key): [-ŋ]
Suffix
-m
- Evidential suffix, first-hand information. Indicates that the speaker has direct evidence/knowledge of some fact, having experienced it, seen it, heard it, etc.
- Used to mark an open-ended question; less formal than -taq.
See also
Turkish
Suffix
-m
- Post-vocalic form of -im.
Suffix
-m
- alternate form of first-person singular simple present tense copula conjugation suffix -um used after informal present continuous suffix -iyo
- git - gidiyom
- go - I am going
- git - gidiyom
Uzbek
Suffix
-m (Cyrillic spelling -м)
- Form of -im after a vowel.
- Bu ruchkam.
- This is my ball pen.