-î

Appendix:Variations of "i" Northern Kurdish Etymology 1 From kmr ira-pro -, ultimately from kmr ine-pro *-ikos; cognates include sa -कस, sla-pro *-ъkъ, la -icus, ang -iġ, en -y. Alternative forms kmr -yî appended to vowel-final words Suffix kmr suffix adjective-forming suffixes Arabic spelling ـی Added to nouns and adjectives to form adjectives meaning “having the quality of”: -y, -ish, -like kmr av water avî watery, liquid kmr bajar city bajarî urban kmr zîv silver zîvî silvery, argentous Added to placenames (or roots thereof) or ethnonyms to form adjectives meaning “of or pertaining to”: -ian, -ese, -ic, -ish kmr kurd Kurd kurdî Kurdish kmr ereb Arab erebî Arabic kmr Çîn China çînî Chinese kmr Yewnanistan Yewnan(istan) Greece yewnanî Greek Derived terms kmr -î (adjectival) kmr -yî (adjectival) kmr -î (belonging) kmr -yî (belonging) Etymology 2 Compare fa ـی -i. Suffix kmr suffix noun-forming suffixes Arabic spelling ـی Used to derive abstract nouns from adjectives: -ness, -ity, -hood kmr qenc good qencî goodness kmr xirab bad xirabî badness, evil kmr sor red sorî redness, ruddiness Derived terms kmr -î (abstract noun) See also kmr -ahî -ayî -tî Etymology 3 From kmr ine-pro *h₁ésti, athematic root present of the root ine-pro *h₁es- to be. Suffix kmr suffix Arabic spelling ـی Used for conjugation of the second person singular (tu): kmr tu dibêjî 1 you speak kmr tu hatî 1 you came Etymology 4 Suffix kmr suffix Arabic spelling ـی Added to placenames to make a gendered noun of origin or nationality: kmr gund village gundî villager his or her: kmr ser head serî his head, her head, same as "serê wê/wî" kmr dest hand destî his hand, her hand, same as "destê wê/wî" kmr oral nonstandard Used for present tense conjugation of the third person singular: kmr ew dibêjî 1 he speaks Derived terms kmr -î Phuthi Etymology bnt-phu bnt-pro *-ì agent noun suffix. Suffix bnt-phu suffix noun-forming suffixes Forms agent nouns from verbs Derived terms bnt-phu Romanian Etymology ro la -īre, the ending of the present active infinitive form of fourth conjugation verbs. Cognate with es ir and fr -ir, it -ire, etc. Pronunciation ro /ɨ/ Suffix ro suffix A suffix forming infinitives of many verbs. Usage notes Most verbs with infinitives in -î are marked by the once-inchoative infix ro -esc- -ăsc- in many parts of their conjugation, as well as in various derived words; two such verbs are ro urî a urî to hate and ro hotărî a hotărî to decide. A sizable group of verbs have infinitives in -î but do not use the infix ro -ăsc-, and are otherwise fairly regular; these include, among others, the common verb ro coborî a coborî to descend. There is a variant form, ro -i, derived from the same Latin source. Conjugation Derived terms ro Related terms ro -ea ro -i ro -e ro -a See also ro -re Walloon Pronunciation wa /iː/ Suffix wa suffix Indicates a person who does (as a profession) the action described by the root word. Roughly equivalent to English -er. A verb ending for infinitives. Derived terms wa