-ri
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ri"
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Norse -ari (“suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs”), from Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz, from Latin -ārius.
Suffix
-ri
- Used to create names of occupations from nouns or verbs.
- (slang) Used to create terms meaning "supporter of something"
- kommunisti (“communist”) → kommari
- sosiaalidemokraatti (“social democrat”) → demari
Declension
Inflection of -ri (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | -ri | -rit | |
genitive | -rin | -rien -reiden -reitten | |
partitive | -ria | -reita -reja | |
illative | -riin | -reihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | -ri | -rit | |
accusative | nom. | -ri | -rit |
gen. | -rin | ||
genitive | -rin | -rien -reiden -reitten | |
partitive | -ria | -reita -reja | |
inessive | -rissa | -reissa | |
elative | -rista | -reista | |
illative | -riin | -reihin | |
adessive | -rilla | -reilla | |
ablative | -rilta | -reilta | |
allative | -rille | -reille | |
essive | -rina | -reina | |
translative | -riksi | -reiksi | |
instructive | — | -rein | |
abessive | -ritta | -reitta | |
comitative | — | -reineen |
Igbo
Jamamadí
Suffix
-ri m (feminine -ro)
- (evidential) identifies an action as certain and having occurred in the near past
References
- 2008 (originally 1976), Robert Campbell, Verification in Jamamadi Quotations, Associação Internacional de Linguística SIL - Brasil, page 4.
Purepecha
Suffix
-ri
- genitive suffix
References
- Estudios de lengua y cultura amerindias II (1998), section on P'urhépecha
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