-aa
- (Pular)middle voicesuffix
- irde(“to cover with sand”) + -aa → iraade(“to be covered with sand, to be buried, to bury oneself”)
- Placed after a verb root to indicate the middle voice
-aa
- vocative enclitic; marks anaddress
Causes nasalization of a preceding stop consonant by
- -k > -n(g)-
- -t > -n-
- -q > -rng-
May freely be connected by hyphenation instead of assimilation, in which case the word to which the enclitic appends is unchanged; this difference is purely orthographic, and stops are still nasalized.
- Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 29, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014
- Fortescue, M.: "Basic Structures and Processes in West Greenlandic" inARCTIC LANGUAGES: An Awakening, p. 323. UNESCO 1990.
-aa
- be in a state or condition
-aa
- A suffix denoting thefirst-person singular,second-person singular or indefinite actor, tothird-person singular object independent form of a transitive animate verb (vta)
-aa acts together with a personal prefix to denote the first or second person, or in the absence of a prefix to denote an indefinite actor.
-aa (inanimate intransitive)
- tobe...
Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001)Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page385
- The preceding syllable will generally have a high tone after affixing.
-aa
- Used at the end of verbs to form anagent noun, effectively meaning "the one that does (verb)".
