-лер

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Kazakh

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Common Turkic *-ler, a plural suffix which is absent from Proto-Turkic. Found as Old Turkic [script needed] (-lar) (back variant) but not found in the sister Oghur branch (compare Chuvash -сем (-sem), Bulgar -ڛَم), where it descended from *sāyïn (every). The Chuvash plural suffix, however, lacks vowel harmony unlike other suffixes.

Pronunciation

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Suffix

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-лер (-ler)

  1. Used to form plurals of nouns.
    үй (üi, house) + ‎-лер (-ler) → ‎үйлер (üiler, houses)

Turkmen

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Suffix

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-лер (transliteration needed)

  1. Cyrillic spelling of -ler (plural suffix)