Arabic affixes in Indonesian, standard

Summary

Affix function number of borrowed affixes

Description

Information and examples are from Jones (1984), Verhaar (1984), Tadmor (2009) and personal communications from Uri Tadmor. Jones (1984:12–17) discusses loanwords and some “Arabic phrases and bound morphemes; Arabic grammar”, but it is unclear whether these are used with native Indonesian stems. According to Uri Tadmor (personal communication), only one affix from Arabic is attested with non-Arabic stems.

1 suffix

  • -awi ‘adjectivizer’ (Tadmor 2009:705), e.g. gerejawi ‘related to church’

Another Arabic adjectivizer, -iah, occurs only on Arabic roots and on roots perceived as Arabic according to Uri Tadmor (personal communication).