Amal/affixes

These are productive affixes in Amal. Nominal affixes are listed with "nom", verbal affixes with "verb".

a

• -á - nom - used to create nouns from roots

• -áb - verb - durative aspect [DUR]

• -ak - nom - instrumental/comitative case; "with, by, using, via" [COM]; adverbials [ADV]

• -ál - verb - frequentative [FREQ]

b

• b(u)- - nom - this; these [PROX]

d

• -da - nom - locative case; "in, at, on" [LOC]

from: -da

e

• e- - nom - used to create nouns from roots

• ém- - num - ordinal number [ORD]

• -esh - verb - general past tense [PST]

eb passive [PASS] ed causative [CAUS] aff / mood eg reflexive [REFL] aff / mood em interrogative mood [Q] aff / mood

g

• gá- - num - multiple number [MULT]

• gi- - verb - tool; device; machine for ~

h

• -ha - nom - instrumental/comitative case; "with, by, using, via" [COM]; adverbials [ADV]

i

• -ik - nom - dual plural [DU]

• -im - nom - general plural [PL]

from: ־ים

ih abilitive mood [ABIL] aff / mood

in agentive; one who ~ [AG] aff / n mod

l

• -la - verb - negative mood [NEG]

sh

• sh(u)- - nom - that; those [DIST]

u

• -ur - verb - general future tense [FUT]

y

• -ya - nom - genitive case; "of, belonging to" [GEN]