-ajö

Appendix:Variations of "ajo" Ye'kwana Alternative forms mch -kajö -yajö -aajö allomorphs Etymology From mch sai-car-pro *-sapô. Cognates in most other Cariban languages do not allow any person marking; this innovation seems largely restricted to Ye'kwana and languages of the Panare and Pemon groups. Pronunciation Suffix mch suffix Forms nouns with perfective-past-participle-like meaning (‘the fact that X was done’) from verbs, which can take patient-like person markers and which, if intransitive, must bear the intransitive prefix mch w-. Usage notes This suffix can trigger syllable reduction on the preceding syllable. The suffix takes the form mch -kajö when the preceding syllable is reducible and has an onset of mch k, mch -yajö when the preceding syllable ends in mch i, and mch -ajö in other contexts. When the final vowel of the preceding syllable is mch o or mch ö and the stem is three or more syllables long, that vowel changes to mch a and forms a single (long) syllable with the mch -a- of this suffix; final stem vowels of mch a also merge into a single long syllable. Person markers referring to interlocutors on a verb nominalized with this suffix are uncommon outside of conditional subordinates formed with a nominalization in mch -ajö and the postposition mch jökö. Derived terms mch References 51, 141–142 -ajö