-ли

See also: ли and Appendix:Variations of "li"

Dungan

Cognate with Mandarin 了 (le).

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-ли • (-li)

-ли • (-li)

Forms adjectives denoting possession of a thing, containing a thing, with a thing etc.
‎кир (kir, “dirt”) + ‎-ли (-li) → ‎кирли (kirli, “dirty”)

‎бала (bala, “child”) + ‎-лы (-lı) → ‎балалы (balalı, “that who has a child”)

^ Clauson, Gerard (1972), “-liğ/-lig/-luğ/-lüg”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page xli

-ли (-li)

forms adjectives from verbs, denoting a property that the subject acquired by performing the continuous action of the verb
‎сцец (scec, “to want”) + ‎-ли (-li) → ‎сцели (sceli, “willing to work”)

‎шмец (šmec, “to dare”) + ‎-ли (-li) → ‎шмели (šmeli, “daring”)

Medʹeši, H.; Fejsa, M. (1997), “-ЛИ”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Сербско-руски словнїк [Serbian-Rusyn Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 2 (О – Ш), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy, page 868