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-ala

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ala"

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English -al, French -al, German -al, Italian -ale, Spanish -al, all ultimately from Latin -ālis.

Suffix

-ala

Suffix used with a noun to make an adjective out of said noun; pertaining to, relating to, appropriate to.
‎amiko (“friend”) + ‎-ala → ‎amikala (“friendly, amicable”)

‎naciono (“nation”) + ‎-ala → ‎nacionala (“national”)

Derived terms

Ido terms suffixed with -ala

Kwak'wala

Suffix

-ala

Suffix forming iterative, continuative or agentive verbs (after a voiced consonant, otherwise -əla).

Synonyms

-əla

Derived terms

Kwak'wala terms suffixed with -ala

References

Franz Boas, Helene Boas Yampolsky & Zellig S. Harris (1947), “Kwakiutl Grammar with a Glossary of the Suffixes”, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society‎^[1], volume 37, number 3, page 306
Daniel Frim (2024), Understanding Composite Text Structure: A Problem in the Comparative Study of Oral-Traditional Literature‎^[2], Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, page 355

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈala/ [ˈa.la]
Rhymes: -ala
Syllabification: -a‧la

Suffix

-ala

inflection of -ar:
1. second-person singular imperative combined with la
2. second-person singular voseo imperative combined with la
third-person singular imperative of -er combined with la
third-person singular imperative of -ir combined with la

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