-ya

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ya"

Bambara

Suffix

-ya

  1. forms abstract nouns from adjectives or nouns
    teri (friend) + -yateriya (friendship)
    jan (long) + -yajanya (length)

Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin

Etymology

From western Japanese (ya, copula).

Particle

-ya

  1. to be

References

  • Komei Hosokawa (1987) Malay talk on boat: an account of Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin

Japanese

Romanization

-ya

  1. Rōmaji transcription of

Kambera

Pronoun

-ya

  1. third person singular accusative enclitic

See also

Maquiritari

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [-ja]

Suffix

-ya

  1. Forms the singular of the recent past perfective tense of the verb ei (to be).
  2. Forms the singular of the distant past perfective tense of the verb ei (to be) when both the agent and patient (if there is one) of the verb are third-person.
Derived terms

Suffix

-ya

  1. Allomorph of -a (nonpast or past imperfective suffix) used for stems that end in i.

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 215–216

Murui Huitoto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [d͡ʒa]

Suffix

-ya

  1. Alternative form of -a

References

  • Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia., Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 134

Pitjantjatjara

Pronoun

-ya (third person plural nominative, bound form of tjana)

  1. they

Usage notes

Bound pronouns can be used instead of the regular "long form" pronouns. They act as clitics that attach to the last word of the first noun phrase in the sentence, or the conjunctions ka or munu if present.

Pitjantjatjara personal pronouns (nominative case)
SingularDualPlural
First person ngayulu (I)
Bound form: -ṉa
ngali (we two)
Bound form: -li
nganaṉa (we, more than two)
Bound form: -la
Second person nyuntu (you)
Bound form: -n
nyupali (you two) nyura (you, more than two)
Third person paluṟu (he/she/it) pula (they two) tjana (they, more than two)
Bound form: -ya

Quechua

Suffix

-ya

  1. to become
    tuta (night, darkness) + -yatutayay (to become dark)
    unu (liquid) + -yaunuyay (to melt)

Derived terms

Quechua terms suffixed with -ya

Teposcolula Mixtec

Suffix

-ya

  1. Forms reverential terms.

Derived terms

Teposcolula Mixtec terms suffixed with -ya
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