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-aa

  1. (Pular) middle voice suffix
    ‎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

  1. vocative enclitic; marks an address

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.

  • DAKA
  • Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 29, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014
  • Fortescue, M.: "Basic Structures and Processes in West Greenlandic" in ARCTIC LANGUAGES: An Awakening, p. 323. UNESCO 1990.

-aa

  1. be in a state or condition

-aa

  1. A suffix denoting the first-person singular, second-person singular or indefinite actor, to third-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)

  1. to be...

Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 385

  • The preceding syllable will generally have a high tone after affixing.

-aa

  1. Used at the end of verbs to form an agent noun, effectively meaning "the one that does (verb)".