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Luthic has two grammatical constructions for expressing comparison: comparative and superlative. The suffixes ''- | Luthic has two grammatical constructions for expressing comparison: comparative and superlative. The suffixes ''-izu'' (the “comparative”) and ''-issimu'' (the “superlative”) are of Indo-European origin and are cognate with the Latin suffixes [[wikt:-ior|''-ior'']] and [[wikt:-issimus|''-issimus'']] and Ancient Greek [[wikt:-ίων|''-ῑ́ων'']] (''-īōn'') and [[wikt:-ιστος|''-ῐστος'']] (''-istos''). This system also contains a number of irregular forms, mainly because of [[wikt:Suppletion|suppletion]]. | ||
Regular examples are: | Regular examples are: | ||