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*** ''tîr'' – "country, land" | *** ''tîr'' – "country, land" | ||
<small>{{note|pn1|Note}} The ''-ta'' suffix obviates the need for the general-purpose adjectival suffix ''-al''. That suffix tends to form adjectives with a more active/progressive meaning, somewhat like a gerundive; ''êndînal'' would mean "unifying, uniting" rather than "unified, united".</small> | <small>{{note|pn1|Note}} The ''-ta'' suffix obviates the need both for the general-purpose adjectival suffix ''-al'' and for the verbal clitic ''ni'' that would occur at the beginning of ''niêndîn'' to mean "unify, unite". That suffix tends to form adjectives with a more active/progressive meaning, somewhat like a gerundive; ''êndînal'' would mean "unifying, uniting" rather than "unified, united".</small> | ||
===Derivational morphology=== | ===Derivational morphology=== |
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