-tu

See also: tu, , and þú

Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /-tu/

Suffix

-tu

  1. Form of -ytu used after nouns ending in consonants.

Declension

Declension of -tu
absolutive -tu
predicative -tu
subjective -tí
genitive -tí
Postpositioned forms
l-case -tul
k-case -tuk
t-case -tut
h-case -tuh

References

  • 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), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Basque

Alternative forms

  • -du (see usage notes)

Etymology

From Latin -tum, a past participle forming suffix. Basque borrowed Latin verbs in their participle form (for example, aditu (to hear) from audītum, neuter perfect passive participle of audiō (I hear)), with the ending being reinterpreted as a new verb forming suffix.[1]

Suffix

-tu

  1. A verb-forming suffix.
    euskara (Basque) + -tueuskaratu (to translate into Basque)
    ohera (to, towards bed) + -tuoheratu (to go to bed)
    gehi (plus) + -tugehitu (to add)
  2. Used to form adjectives, roughly corresponding to the English past participle forming suffix -ed.
    gehi (plus) + -tugehitu (augmented)

Usage notes

  • Takes the form -du after words ending in /l/ or /n/:
    lagun (friend) + -tulagundu (to help)
  • This is the only productive verb-forming suffix in modern Basque, having displaced the native suffix -i.
  • Verbs taking this suffix have no synthetic forms (with the exception of ezagutu (to know)).

Derived terms

Basque terms suffixed with -tu

References

  1. -tu” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *-t'oin. Cognate with Finnish -ton/-tön.

Suffix

-tu (genitive -tu, partitive -tut, comparative -tum, superlative kõige -tum)

  1. -less

Inflection

Derived terms

Estonian terms suffixed with -tu

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /-tu(ˣ)/, [-t̪u(ʔ)]

Suffix

-tu (front vowel harmony variant -ty)

  1. Alternative form of -ttu

Anagrams


Garifuna

Suffix

-tu

  1. nominalizing suffix deriving agent nouns of feminine gender (see -ti for masculine).
    Abuwaguto cook
    Abuwagutuchef (female)

Latin

Suffix

-tū

  1. ablative singular of -tus

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • -atu, -etu, -thu, -tiu

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *-tūss (stem *-tūt-; compare Welsh -tid), from Proto-Indo-European *-tuHts (whence Latin -tūs and Gothic -𐌳𐌿𐌸𐍃 (-dūþs)).

Suffix

-tu m

  1. -ness, -ity

Inflection

Masculine d-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative -tu
Vocative -tu
Accusative -taidN
Genitive -tad
Dative -taidL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Old Irish terms suffixed with -tu

Further reading


Old Norse

Alternative forms

Pronoun

-tu (enclitic)

  1. enclitic form of þú
    • Haralds saga hins hárfagra 41.
      Nú tóktu svá við sem várr konungr vildi.
    • Lokasenna 24.
      En þik síða kóðu / Samseyju í / ok draptu á vétt sem vǫlur / vitka líki / fórtu verþjóð yfir / ok hugða ek þat args aðal
    skalt (shalt) + þúskaltu (shalt thou)
    lát (let (impr.)) + þúláttu (let (impr.))

Usage notes

For reasons related to syntax, as well as Old Norse often explicitly stating the subject of verbs in the imperative, the verb is often followed by the subject pronoun. For þú, this is when it may take on an enclitic form. This is not to say, however, that whenever þú comes after a verb, it will always take an enclitic form. It could well stay separate for the sake of emphasis.

Which one of the variants -du, -ðu and -tu to use, is decided by the same rules that decide which dental suffix to take in the type 1 weak verbs. This form is used after hard consonants.

Descendants

This feature is also present in modern Icelandic verb conjugation, with its imperative forms with appended personal pronouns (though only in the second person).

See also


Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tu/

Suffix

preceding vowel
A / I E / İ O / U Ö / Ü
-tı -ti -tu -tü

Form of -tı after the vowels O / U.

  1. Derives nouns from verbs, of a result or product of the action, with the suffix -n, which derives Reflexive forms of verbs.
  2. Some verb roots either do not have Reflexive forms due to being New Turkish words derived through false analogy or these forms fell off use in modern Turkish.
  3. Derives onomatopoeic nouns, with suffixes -ır or -ıl, which derive onomatopoeic verbs in Turkic dialects.
  4. Derives nouns with the suffix -ar, which derives intransitive verbs from the names of colors, of an area that turns that color.
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