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Some words of foreign, especially French, origin, are invariable, as for example all month and weekday names. The word ''tawarich'' (comrade) uses the Russian plural ''tawarichi'' when used as a vocative, and ''tawarichemi'' otherwise. | Some words of foreign, especially French, origin, are invariable, as for example all month and weekday names. The word ''tawarich'' (comrade) uses the Russian plural ''tawarichi'' when used as a vocative, and ''tawarichemi'' otherwise. | ||
The ''-emi'' suffix is | The ''-emi'' suffix is, for native words, used for many ''-i'' and ''-u'' nouns, in the latter case usually forming ''-wemi'': | ||
: ''kʌrami'' (head) → ''kʌramiemi'' (heads; but also ''kʌramimi'') | |||
: ''beyđi'' (knot) → ''beyđiemi'' (knots) | |||
: ''lâneychär′u'' (nation) → ''lâneychär′wemi'' (nations) | : ''lâneychär′u'' (nation) → ''lâneychär′wemi'' (nations) | ||
Other regular patterns are ''-eyä'' → ''-eymi'' (''meyʌhäht′eyä'' "people" → ''meyʌhäht′eymi'' "peoples") and, for the derivational suffix ''-wałe'', ''-weyłi'' (''deydiwałe'' "birth" → ''deydiweyłi'' "births"). | Other regular patterns are ''-eyä'' → ''-eymi'' (''meyʌhäht′eyä'' "people" → ''meyʌhäht′eymi'' "peoples") and, for the derivational suffix ''-wałe'', ''-weyłi'' (''deydiwałe'' "birth" → ''deydiweyłi'' "births"). | ||