Contionary:-a
Europic
Pronunciation
- Europic Phonology: /a/
Affix (Suffix, adjectival)
-a
- -ed, -ate, -y
- Standard ending for adjectives, determiners, and numbers. Converts a verb (ending in -e) to a past participle equivalent to -ita, e.g. bate ‘to build’ → bata ‘built’ (=batita), however, only -ita can specify that it is derived from a verb. For example, toma can mean either ‘empty’ or ‘emptied’, while tomita can only mean ‘emptied’.
See also: a
Grekelin
Pronunciation (IPA)
Etymology
A fusion of Medieval Greek -ος (-os) and -ας (as), with the loss of final -s during the early stages and the raising of o > a in most dialects, ultimately inherited from Proto-Indo-European *-os and cognate with Latin -us, Icelandic -ur and Italian -o.
Suffix
-a
- Used to form first declension nouns, declined like "gnudzsa".
- Used to form agent nouns on certain weak verbs
- darao (To perform an action, intervene) > darata (Action, combat)