-а

-а • (-a) (front vowel variant -е)

1. Forms agent nouns: -er, -or

   ‎пӑх (păh, “to look”) + ‎-а (-a) → ‎пӑха (păh̬a, “supervisor”)

2. Forms instrument nouns by means of which the action is performed

   ‎пӑр (păr, “to turn”) + ‎-а (-a) → ‎пӑра (păra, “drill”)

3. Forms resultative nouns

   ‎вит (vit, “to cover”) + ‎-а (-a) → ‎вите (vit̬e, “stable”)

4. Forms nouns of location

   ‎ҫарат (śarat, “to clear”) + ‎-а (-a) → ‎ҫарата (śarat̬a, “meadow”)

-а • (-a) (front vowel variant -е)

1. (non-productive) Forms diminutives

   ‎ҫӳҫ (śüś, “hair”) + ‎-а (-a) → ‎ҫӳҫе (śüś̬e, “fringe”)

   ‎мӑй (măj, “neck”) + ‎-а (-a) → ‎мӑя (măja, “necklace”)

• IPA^(key): /-a/, [-ä]

-а • (-a) (soft stem variant -я)

1. Used to form nouns describing the quality of an adjective; -ness
2. Used to form adjectives having a characteristic of a noun; -like, -ly
3. Used to form postpositions measuring the preceding noun in the quality of an adjective; as ... as

• Bubrikh, Dmitry V. (1949) Грамматика литературного коми языка [Grammar of the literary Komi language] (in Russian), Leningrad: Zhdanov Leningrad State University, page 61

• IPA^(key): [ə]

• -я (-ja) – used after a soft consonant

-а • (-a)

1. Noun-forming suffix used to form diminutives of proper names; used after a hard (unpalatalized) consonant.

From early Proto-Slavic *-ja.

• -а (-a) – non-iotating

-а • (-a)

1. Noun-forming suffix used to form abstract nouns and agent nouns from prefixed stems ending in a consonant that becomes a hushing consonant (ш ж ч щ) when iotated. The final consonant of the stem is iotated before this suffix.

   ‎по- (po-) + ‎клад- (klad-, “to lay, to put”) + ‎-а (-a) → ‎покла́жа (pokláža, “load”)

   ‎пропа́д- (propád-, “to disappear”) + ‎-а (-a) → ‎пропа́жа (propáža, “disappearance, loss”)

   ‎пред- (pred-, “before”) + ‎тек- (tek-, “to flow”) + ‎-а (-a) → ‎предте́ча (predtéča, “forerunner, precursor”)

   ‎переда́т- (peredát-, “to broadcast”) + ‎-а (-a) → ‎переда́ча (peredáča, “broadcast”)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-a.

• -а (-a) – iotating

-а • (-a)

1. Noun-forming suffix used to form abstract nouns and agent nouns from prefixed stems. The final consonant of the stem is not iotated before this suffix.

   ‎про- (pro-) + ‎сек- (sek-, “to cut”) + ‎-а (-a) → ‎про́сека (próseka, “path cleared in a forest”)

   ‎от- (ot-) + ‎рад (rad, “glad”) + ‎-а (-a) → ‎отра́да (otráda, “joy”)

-а (Latin spelling -a)

1. Suffix appended to words (usually verbal stems) to create a feminine noun, usually denoting a relation or to form a proper noun.

From Proto-Slavic *-a, from Proto-Indo-European *-ōd, the thematic ablative ending.

-а (Latin spelling -a)

1. Forms the genitive singular of masculine and neuter nouns and indefinite adjectives.