-yto

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Afar

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Pronunciation

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Suffix

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-ytó (masculine -ytu)

  1. Used to form feminine singulative nouns.
  2. Used to form feminine diminutive nouns.
  3. Used to form feminine nouns denoting origin, characteristic or occupation.

Usage notes

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  • Used after nouns ending in the vowel -a.
  • After the vowels -e, -i, -o, -u the form -ytá is used.
  • After nouns ending in a consonant, the forms -tó and -tá are used (depending on the preceding vowel).

Declension

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Declension of -ytó
absolutive -ytó
predicative -ytó
subjective -ytó
genitive -ytó
Postpositioned forms
l-case -ytól
k-case -ytók
t-case -ytót
h-case -ytóh

Derived terms

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References

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  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 228
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Saho

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Alternative forms

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  • (Northern Saho) -tto

Etymology

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Related to Afar -ytu, -ytó.

Pronunciation

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Suffix

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-yto

  1. (Southern Saho) Used to form singulative nouns from their collective counterparts.

Usage notes

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  • If both a masculine and feminine singulatives of the collective noun exist, the feminine form -ytö is used to distinguish it from the masculine.

Declension

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(masculine)

Declension of -yto
absolutive -yto
subjective -yti
genitive -yti

(feminine)

Declension of -yto
absolutive -yto
subjective -yto
genitive -ytot

Derived terms

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References

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    Giorgio Banti, Moreno Vergari (2005) “A sketch of Saho Grammar”, in Journal of Eritrean Studies, volume 4, numbers 1-2, pages 100-131