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-iak
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Appendix:Variations of "ak"
Slovak
Etymology
sk sla-pro *-akъ after a en nominal in *-ь or a en verb with soft (front) final root en vowel.
Pronunciation
Suffix
sk suffix m agentive suffixes
alternative form of suffix sk -ák after roots in a (historically) soft or palatalizeable consonant
sk divieť diviak
sk peší pešiak
sk tretí tretiak
sk nákladné (auto) nákladniak
sk horný horniak
sk Poľsko Poliak
sk sušiť sušiak
sk čmeľ čmeliak
sk Beňo Beniak
Declension
Inanimate nouns:
m-in
Animate nouns:
m-pr
Animal nouns:
m-anml
Derived terms
sk
Related terms
sk -ák
sk -áčka ~ sk -iačka
Further reading
Pauliny, Eugen - Ružička, Jozef - Štolc, Jozef (1968), Slovenská gramatika (in Slovak), 5th edition, Bratislava: Slovenské pedagogické nakladateľstvo, pages 145-152
“-iak”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025