-y

Etymology 1
From, , from , from , from , from , ,.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. .

Usage notes

 * This suffix is very productive and can be added to almost any word. When the resulting word is not perceived to be an established or formal word (but rather a or a ), a hyphen is often used before the suffix ( → ); this is sometimes also used when an established term is used very literally, as a form of clarification ( →, distinct from ). A few long-established words ending with this suffix have distinctive spellings, such as  and , which English learners might misspell as  and.

Translations
Note: translations of English words ending in -y do not necessarily end in the suffixes listed below.


 * Asturian: -osu, -osa
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:, ,
 * Georgian: -ური, -ული
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Irish: -ach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: -質, -状,, , ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Latin:
 * Middle English: -y
 * Norwegian: -ig
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , -ивый
 * Sanskrit: -इक, -इन्
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Tamil: -ஆன
 * Ukrainian: -ий


 * Finnish: -va, -vä
 * Galician:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , -ивый
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: -ий


 * German:

Etymology 2
Cognate with, being inherited directly from the same source , , from , from ,. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Suffix

 * granny, pinny, tummy
 * Andy, Billy, Johnny, Jonesy, lovey
 * Andy, Billy, Johnny, Jonesy, lovey
 * Andy, Billy, Johnny, Jonesy, lovey

Translations
Note: translations of English words ending in -y do not necessarily end in the suffixes listed below.


 * Armenian: -իկ, -ուկ, -ակ
 * Asturian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:, , , , , , , -che,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:, , ,
 * Hebrew: ־ון, ־ית
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Interlingua: -etto, -etta
 * Irish: -ín
 * Italian: -etto, -etta, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Middle Low German: -eken
 * Neapolitan: -illo
 * Northern Mansi:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: -uț,, -ior, , -ușor, , , , , -ioară
 * Russian:, , , , , , , -цо
 * Spanish:, , -iño, -iña, , , , ino, , , , , -iello, -ullo,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:, , , , , , , , -cak, -cağız, -ceğiz
 * Welsh: -ig, -cyn, -os


 * Japanese:
 * Polish:

Etymology 3
From, , , , from and  and , from , , , , ,. Cognate (as far as 🇨🇬 is involved) with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Suffix

 * as in
 * as in
 * as in
 * as in
 * as in
 * as in
 * as in

Translations
Note: translations of English words ending in -y do not necessarily end in the suffixes listed below.


 * Armenian: -ություն
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სი- -ე
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: -à
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Latin:, , -tas
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, , , -enie
 * Spanish:, -tad, , -ie, , -tud, -edumbre
 * Swedish:, , ,
 * Ukrainian: -ий


 * French:
 * Russian: -ия
 * Spanish: ,

Clitic

 * : is it?

Clitic

 * : and, also

Usage notes

 * When following a short vowel, -y lengthens that vowel:

Pronoun

 * 1) him, she, it (third-person singular indirect pronoun)

Usage notes
It is always spelled with the hyphen, unlike other pronouns in the language.

Related terms

 * , (third-person plural indirect pronoun)

Suffix

 * 1) -ly:

Usage notes
The plural imperative can also appear without this suffix, in a form identical to the singular imperative.

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from. .

Suffix

 * 1) Used to form the imperative mood of verbs

Etymology
, the definite form of hard-stem adjectives. See.

Etymology
.

Suffix

 * Uyariway! ("(You) listen to me!")
 * Uyariway! ("(You) listen to me!")
 * Uyariway! ("(You) listen to me!")
 * Uyariway! ("(You) listen to me!")
 * Uyariway! ("(You) listen to me!")
 * Uyariway! ("(You) listen to me!")
 * Uyariway! ("(You) listen to me!")
 * Uyariway! ("(You) listen to me!")