Kurdish affixes in Suleimaniya Jewish Neo-Aramaic

Summary

Affix function number of borrowed affixes

Description

Examples and information are from Khan (2007). All three forms are described as being not very tightly integrated into the morphology, as they only occur in word-final positions. They are, however, presented as bound forms.

1 definite suffix

  • -ăke ‘definite’, e.g. barux-awal-ăke (friend-plural-definite) ‘the friends’. The source form of this suffix is a Kurdish particle aka with a Kurdish oblique case marker -y.

1 post-verbal particle

  • -(a)wa ‘returning, restoring, repetition, completion’, e.g. hiye-wa (come:past:3.masculine-particle) ‘he came back’, qadome der-awa (tomorrow/return:fut:3masculine-particle) ‘he will return tomorrow.’

1 nominal modifying particle

  • -iš ‘inclusive’, e.g. nošew-iš ‘also himself’.