-h

Afar

Pronunciation

Suffix

-h

  1. Marks the benefactive case: for ...'s benefit
  2. Marks the allative case: towards
  3. Marks the prolative case: by way of
  4. Marks the instrumental case: using; with
  5. Marks the adessive case: on; on top of
  6. Marks the temporal case: during; on
  7. Marks the causal case: because of
  8. Marks the estimative case: of about
  9. Marks the assertive mood: really
  10. (+ én or geytimé) Marks the verbal noun
  11. Used after the genitive case of nouns ending on a vowel, before words beginning with a vowel

References

  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 357

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /-ʔ/

Suffix

-h

  1. Used to form the plural of absolutive noun forms.
Examples:
cōconeh, plural form of conētl (“child”)
māmazah, plural form of mazātl (“deer”)
tēteoh, plural form of teōtl (“god”)
Usage notes

Some nouns pluralized with -h undergo the reduplication of their first or second syllable.

Synonyms
Derived terms
  • see Category:Classical Nahuatl plurals

Suffix

-h

  1. Forms the plural of verbs. Only used for animate subjects.
    titītza (“to stretch something”) → quititītzah (“They stretch it”)
    itta (“to see something”) → quittah (“They see it”)
    tolīnia (“to bother someone, to make suffer”) → ammotolīniah (“You (plrl.) suffer, You are bothered”)
    titītza (“to stretch something”) → motitītzah (“They stretch (themselves)”)
    itta (“to see something”) → tiquittah (“We see it”)
    pāca (“to wash something”) → tlapācah (“They wash something, they wash things”)

Karelian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Suffix

-h

  1. Used to mark the possession of the third person; his, her, their
    jalka (“leg”) → jalkah (“his/her leg, their legs”)

Derived terms

Category Karelian terms suffixed with -h not found

References

  • P. M. Zaykov (1999) Грамматика Карельского языка (фонетика и морфология) [Grammar of the Karelian language (phonetics and morphology)], →ISBN, page 47

Maltese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ħ/

Suffix

-h m

  1. Alternative form of -u (“him, it”), used after a vowel
    ‎qatlu (“they killed”) + ‎-h → ‎qatluh (“they killed him”)
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