Details
General
| Morphemic form: | N{-tə}N |
| New orthography: | -taa |
| Old orthography: | -tâ |
| Sources: | [21] |
| Combinations: | View list |
| Left sandhi: | Truncative |
| Right sandhi: | Default/none |
| Inflection sandhi: | Default/none |
| Stem type(s): | tə-stem |
Description and behaviour
Form and usage:
This is a non-productive morpheme found in many spatial nouns. Its meaning is 'area in the direction N', and it is used to form spatial nouns from directional/demonstrative bases.
Inflection
Declension pattern:
| Stem type: | tə-stem |
| Declension type: | p-declined |
| Declension sandhi: | Default/none |
| Stem before consonant | Stem before vowel | Notable forms | |
|---|---|---|---|
| New orthography | -ti | -ta | -t, -tip, -tit, |
| Phonemic orthography | -tə | -tə | -tə, -təp, -tət, |
Notes on declension:
Most spatial nouns are only used with possessive endings; never in the unpossessed absolutive or ergative cases, but we record the endings here anyway, since there might be exceptions.
Sometimes, they are also with unpossessed ablative and allative endings in singular, and in these cases, /ə/ is always elided and the m-initial endings attach directly to /t/.
Meanings and examples
Where N is a directional or demonstrative stem.