-ii

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ii"

Italian

Etymology

From Latin -īvī (via -īī).[1] Example: Italian finii, from Latin finivi.

Suffix

-ii (non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix)

  1. used with a stem to form the first-person singular past historic of regular -ire verbs

References
  1. Patota, Giuseppe (2002) Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, →ISBN, page 145

Latin

Suffix

-iī

  1. inflection of -ius:
    1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
    2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

Suffix

-ii

  1. nominalizer

Usage notes

Example: from the verb hataał (“he sings”) + -ii, we can make a noun for hataałii (“singer”)

Derived terms
Navajo terms suffixed with -ii

See also

Phalura

Etymology

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Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /-ii, -i/

Suffix

-ii

  1. Genitive suffix

Alternative forms
  • -íi (With accent-shifting nouns)
  • -e (Biori)
  • -í (With accent-shifting nouns in Biori)

References
  • Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎, Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN
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