-oa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "oa"

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈoa/
Rhymes: -oa

Suffix

-oa

(transitive) Instrumental verbal suffix; usually, but not exclusively, appended to nouns to create verbs. Transitive counterpart of -ihui.

Derived terms

Classical Nahuatl terms suffixed with -oa

Finnish

Etymology

Conflated:

from Proto-Finnic *-odak, from Proto-Uralic *-w- (as applied to stems ending in -a-, compare -o).
from Proto-Finnic *-oidak, from Proto-Uralic *-j- (as applied to stems ending in -a-, compare -o; the -o- is a re-extraction from the suffix being applied to stems ending in -a which was labialized by -j).

Suffix

-oa (front vowel harmony variant -öä, stem -o-, linguistic notation -O- or -OA)

Forms frequentative and continuative verbs, primarily from nouns or verbs ending in -ta or -ata, but also from adverbs.

Derived terms

Finnish terms suffixed with -oa

-ota

Anagrams

ao.

Swahili

Suffix

-oa

mid vowel variant of -ua

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