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Appendix:Variations of "to"
Afar
Pronunciation
-tó
Suffix
aa suffix form -tó
aa Form -ytó used after nouns ending in consonants.
Declension
-tó
References
228
Basque
Etymology 1
eu diminutive
eu. The suffix may be perserved in la Nescato, which was perhaps borrowed from la xaq 1 -.348 -to [1]
Suffix
eu suffix
Diminutive suffix.
eu rare non-productive Augmentative suffix.
Derived terms
eu
Etymology 2
eu adverbial
eu.348 -to [2]
Suffix
eu suffix
eu Biscayan Forms adverbs from adjectives.
eu -ki
Derived terms
eu
References
Further reading
Chuukese
Suffix
chk suffix
here; used to modify verb direction
chk Directions
Ingrian
Etymology
Borrowed from izh ru -то.
Pronunciation
Particle
izh particle
Used to give contrastive emphasis to a preceding word.
izh Miä veel en tohi viinaa ostaa, miul-to ono vaa viistoist vootta! I'm not allowed to buy alcohol yet, I am still fifteen years old, after all!
References
2022 Diskursusepartiklid isuri keele Soikkola murdes Elena Markus Keel ja kirjandus 86
Japanese
Romanization
と
Kalo Finnish Romani
Suffix
rmf suffix
Used to form ordinal numbers.
Usage notes
The first two ordinal numbers have irregular forms in addition to the regular forms, iekto and duito: vaaguno and vauro. The third and fourth are somewhat irregular: tritto and startto instead of the expected *triinto and *staarto.
Latin
Etymology 1
la frequentative -tus<id:past participle> -ō<id:denominative>
Likely originally denominal denominatives in la -ō<id:denominative> formed from the past participle (ending in la -tus<id:past participle>).
Suffix
1+ -tō
Forms frequentative verbs from existing verbs. In Latin, this means repeated or intense action.B. L. Gildersleeve and Gonzalez Lodge (1895), Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar, §191 A. For examples, see here.
Usage notes
This suffix is not used for first conjugation verbs, the variant la -itō appears there instead.
Conjugation
1+ -tō
Derived terms
la -itō
la -titō
la
Etymology 2
la imperative
la
Suffix
la suffix inflectional suffixes -tō plural -tōte
second/third-person person singular future active imperative ending
Etymology 3
la 1
Suffix
la suffix form -tō
la -tus m//n dat//abl s
References
Swahili
ـتُ
Etymology
sw :inh bnt-sab-pro:*nto ++ Cognate with zdj ndro and nyf tʰo.
Clitic
sw particle clitics
sw Amu poetry denotes goodness or propriety
sw early 19th century Alphabetical Acrostic ʿUmar bin Amin quoted in 1929 A. Werner Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 5, Number 3 An Alphabetical Acrostic in a Northern Dialect of Swahili 561–569 10.1017/S0041977X0008472X سَفَرِ نِدِتُ مِدُ بَعِيْدِ Safari nendeto mwendo baidi Go carefully on thy journey, the way is perilous:— stanza 12 translation by A. Werner
sw Kitabu cha agano jipya la Bwana na Mwokozi wetu Isa Masiya 1883 Marko XII:39 na viti vya kwanza katika masunagogi, na kuwekato katika karamu : and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. translation from New International Version
Usage notes
A final sw -a is sometimes changed to sw -e before this clitic.
Derived terms
sw manukato
sw punyeto
References
46
A handbook of the Swahili language as spoken at Zanzibar Edward Steere A.C. Madan 3rd 1919 sw -to 397.
Taos
Pronunciation
twf /tɑ/
Postposition
twf postposition
in, within, on, at
Related terms
twf hìwkwíalto
twf pǫ̂to
twf wę̀puopʼôto
Ye'kwana
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
mch -cho allomorph after mch i
Pronunciation
Suffix
mch suffix
Forms the plural of nonpast tenses.
Forms the plural of the recent past tense. (When used alone, forms the plural of the recent past perfective tense when the arguments of the verb are first- or second-person.)
Forms the plural of the distant past tense when at least one of the arguments of the verb is third-person.
Usage notes
This suffix can cause syllable reduction.
Derived terms
mch -icho -ato -anto -neto -akento -a'to
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Suffix
mch suffix
Allomorph of mch -ato adverb/postposition nominalizing suffix used after all vowels but mch e and mch i.
References
124, 213–222 ⸗to