Amal/affixes

These are productive affixes in Amal.

• -ab - durative aspect [DUR]

• -al - repetitive; habitual [HAB]

• -ám - augmentative [AUG]

• -ash - desiderative mood [DES]

• bi- - dative case [DAT] "to; for; toward"

ib- - dative for pronouns

• bu- - proximal "this (by me)" for roots with o, u or a

be- - proximal "this (by me)" for roots with e or i

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

-ad - for some roots

• -eb - passive [PASS]

• -ed - causative [CAUS]

• -eg - reflexive [REFL]

• -ek - infinitive [INF]

• -em - interrogative [INT]

• ém- - ordinal number [ORD]

• -en - feminine; female [FEM]

• -esh - past tense [PST]

• -eshb - passive participles [PPP]

• gá- - multiple number [MULT]

• gi- - tool; device; instrument

• -ha - comitative case [COM] "with; by; through"; also used to form adverbs

-ak - for some roots

• -ik - dual plural [DU]

• -im - plural [PL]

• -in - agent noun [AG]

• -ísh - diminutive [DIM]

• ka- - animal

• -la - negative mood [NEG]

not used with second or third person singular

• mu- - other; else

• na- - collective plural [COL]

• -ra - infinitive [INF]

• -sha - negative mood [NEG] ablative case [ABL] "from; off of"; also used to form comparatives

-ásh - for some roots

• -ul - masculine; male [MASC]

• -úl - "without; lacking"; abessive case [ABE]

• -un - reportative marker [REP]

• -ur - tentative mood [TENT]

• -wa - accusative case [ACC]; object

-u - for some roots

• -ya - genitive case [GEN]; possessive

-ai - for some roots

Medial Clusters

	past	present	tentative
eb	xeshan	xan	xuran
ed	xeshti	xti	xure
eg	xesha	xa	xura
ek	xeshuk	xuk	xuruk
el	xeshut	xut	xurut
em	xeshum	xum	xurum
en	xeshum	xum	xurum
ep	xeshum	xum	xurum
er	xeshum	xum	xurum
es	xeshum	xum	xurum
esh	xeshum	xum	xurum
et	xeshum	xum	xurum