-sul

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See also: sul, Sul, súl, sùl, sül, sůl, and -sül

Azerbaijani[edit]

Other scripts
Cyrillic -сул
Abjad -سول

Etymology[edit]

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (yoksul), which is, according to Clauson, a corruption of the suffix -siz (without) in the earlier yoksuz, which was displaced by yoksul in several Turkic languages.[1]

Suffix[edit]

-sul

  1. non-productive adjective-deriving suffix
    yox (nothing; there is not) + ‎-sul → ‎yoxsul (poor, impoverished)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 903

Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From -s (adjective-forming suffix) +‎ -ul (verb-forming suffix).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Suffix[edit]

-sul

  1. (verb-forming suffix) Forms an intransitive verb similarly to the suffix -ul. Nouns and adjectives ending in ó/ő, ú/ű use it frequently.
    állandó (permanent) + ‎-sul → ‎állandósul (to become permanent)

Usage notes[edit]

  • (verb-forming suffix) Variants:
    -sul is added to back-vowel words
    -sül is added to front-vowel words

Conjugation[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ -sul 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.)

Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (yoksul), which is, according to Clauson, a corruption of the suffix -siz (without) in the earlier yoksuz, which was displaced by yoksul in several Turkic languages.[1]

The word "varsıl", meaning "rich", is the only word that also is using this suffix.

Suffix[edit]

-sul

  1. adjective-deriving suffix
    yok (nothing; there is not) + ‎-sul → ‎yoksul (poor, impoverished)
    var (there is) + ‎-sul → ‎varsıl (rich, affluent)

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 903