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-tto

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See also: TTO and tto

Finnish

Etymology

-tta + -i (labialized -tto < -tta-i). Most words with this suffix are literary coinages; pihatto is attested since Agricola and is likely the oldest word containing this suffix, which may in fact be re-extracted from it.

Suffix

-tto (front vowel harmony variant -ttö, linguistic notation -ttO) (rare)

  1. Forms some nouns, chiefly for places.

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

Derived terms

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Saho

Alternative forms

  • (Southern Saho) -yto

Etymology

Related to Afar -ytu, -ytó.

Pronunciation

Suffix

-tto

  1. (Northern Saho) Used to form singulative nouns from their collective counterparts.

Usage notes

  • If both a masculine and feminine singulatives of the collective noun exist, the feminine form -ttö is used to distinguish it from the masculine.

Declension

(masculine)

More information absolutive, subjective ...

(feminine)

More information absolutive, subjective ...

Derived terms

References

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    Giorgio Banti; Moreno Vergari (2005), “A sketch of Saho Grammar”, in Journal of Eritrean Studies, volume 4, numbers 1-2, pages 100-131
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