Amal/affixes

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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

ba da ga ha ka la ma na pa ra sa sha ta wa ya
eb - ebda - ebha - ebla - - - ebra ebsa ebsha ebta ebwa ebya
ed - - - - - - - - - edra - - - - -
eg - - - - - egla - - - egra - - - egwa -
ek - - - ekha - ekla - - - ekra eksa eksha ekta ekwa -
el - - - elha - ella - - - - - - - elwa elya
em emba emda - emha - emla - emna empa emra emsa emsha emta emwa emya
en - enda enga - enka enla enma - - - ensa ensha enta enwa enya
[ɲ]
ep - - - - - epla - - - epra epsa - - - -
er - - - erha - - - - - - - - - erwa erya
es esba - - - eska esla esma esna espa esra - - esta eswa -
esh eshba - - - eshka eshla eshma eshna eshpa eshra - - eshta eshwa -
et - - - - - etla - - - etra etsa etsha - - -