Chinese affixes in Dagur

Summary

Affix function number of borrowed affixes

Description

Information and examples are from Tsumagari (2003: 136).

 

1 plural suffix (out of 4 Dagur plural suffixes)

-cieng ‘plural’, e.g. gambul-cieng ‘executives’ (in Chinese, -cieng denotes place of origin or habitation, e.g. batgen-cieng ‘Butha people’, degidee-cieng ‘upper-river-dwellers’)