-tan
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tan"
Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]-tan
Pipil
[edit]Adverb
[edit]-tan
- near.
Turkish
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-tan
- Alternative form of -dan
Ye'kwana
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- -chan (allomorph before i)
Etymology
[edit]From the singular/third-person form -ta.
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-tan
- Directs that the command or request expressed by a verb must be executed somewhere else and not at the place where the order was given when the verb is in the non-third-person plural, i.e. when the suffix is followed by -tö.
References
[edit]- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, page 235