-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

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /-uri/, [-uri]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /-uri/, [-uri]

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). 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