-ya

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ya"

Bambara

Suffix

-ya

1. forms abstract nouns from adjectives or nouns

   ‎teri (“friend”) + ‎-ya → ‎teriya (“friendship”)

   ‎jan (“long”) + ‎-ya → ‎janya (“length”)

Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin

Etymology

From western Japanese や (ya, copula).

Particle

-ya

1. to be

References

• Komei Hosokawa (1987) Malay talk on boat: an account of Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin‎^[1] (in Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin)

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *-jamā. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Suffix

-ya

1. Verbal suffix

   ‎red- + ‎-ya → ‎redya (“to read”)

   ‎rewl (“rule”) + ‎-ya → ‎rewlya (“to rule”)

   ‎urdh (“order”) + ‎-ya → ‎urdhya (“to initiate”)

Usage notes

• Used to form verbs with almost all borrowings and neologisms.

Derived terms

Cornish terms suffixed with -ya

See also

• -a

Gagauz

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɑ/

Suffix

-ya

1. Back vowel variant of -ä after vowels

Japanese

Romanization

-ya

1. Rōmaji transcription of や

Kambera

Pronoun

-ya

1. third person singular accusative enclitic

See also

Kambera pronominal clitics

	Nominative	Genitive	Accusative	Dative
1sg	ku-	-nggu	-ka	-ngga
2sg	mu- (u-)	-mu	-kau	-nggau
3sg	na-	-na	-ya	-nya
1pl.incl	ta-	-nda	-ta	-nda
1pl.excl	ma-	-ma	-kama	-nggama
2pl	mi- (i-)	-mi	-kami (-kai)	-nggami (-nggai)
3pl	da-	-da	-ha	-nja

Murui Huitoto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [-d͡ʒa]

Etymology 1

Cognates include Minica Huitoto -ya and Nüpode Huitoto -ya.

Classifier

-ya

1. Classifier for vehicles.

Derived terms

Murui Huitoto terms suffixed with -ya

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Suffix

-ya

1. Alternative form of -a

References

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 134

Pitjantjatjara

Pronoun

-ya (third person plural nominative, bound form of tjana)

1. they

Usage notes

Bound pronouns can be used instead of the regular "long form" pronouns. They act as clitics that attach to the last word of the first noun phrase in the sentence, or the conjunctions ka or munu if present.

Related terms

Pitjantjatjara personal pronouns (nominative case)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
First person	ngayulu (I) Bound form: -ṉa	ngali (we two) Bound form: -li	nganaṉa (we, more than two) Bound form: -la
Second person	nyuntu (you) Bound form: -n	nyupali (you two)	nyura (you, more than two)
Third person	paluṟu (he/she/it)	pula (they two)	tjana (they, more than two) Bound form: -ya

Quechua

Suffix

-ya

1. Transformative suffix: to become.

   tuta (“night, darkness”) → tutayay (“to become dark”)

   unu (“water, liquid”) → unuyay (“to become liquid ＝ to melt”)

Derived terms

Quechua terms suffixed with -ya

Swahili

Alternative forms

• (after a vowel) -za

Suffix

-ya

1. (often with spirantization of the preceding consonant) causative suffix

   Near-synonyms: -isha/-esha, -iza/-eza

   1. used after verbs stems ending -k- (but not in -ek- or -ik-) with spirantization of the -k- to -sh-

      ‎-chemka (“to boil”) + ‎-ya → ‎-chemsha (“to bring to a boil”)

   2. used in some verbs interchangeably with -isha/-esha

      ‎-ogopa (“to fear”) + ‎-ya → ‎-ogofya (“to frighten”)

   3. (nonproductive) used to construct a causative verb with slightly different meaning

      ‎-ona (“to see”) + ‎-ya → ‎-onya (“to warn”)

      ‎-lala (“to sleep”) + ‎-ya → ‎-laza (“to put to bed”)

Derived terms

Swahili terms suffixed with -ya

• Swahili causative verbs

Teposcolula Mixtec

Suffix

-ya

1. Forms reverential terms.

Derived terms

Teposcolula Mixtec terms suffixed with -ya

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [-ja]

Etymology 1

Suffix

-ya

1. Forms the singular of the recent past perfective tense of the verb ei (“to be”).
2. Forms the singular of the distant past perfective tense of the verb ei (“to be”) when both the agent and patient (if there is one) of the verb are third-person.

Derived terms

• -yato

Etymology 2

Suffix

-ya

1. Allomorph of -a (nonpast or past imperfective suffix) used for stems that end in i.

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[3], Lyon, pages 215–216