Meaning of -i | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Gives a causative meaning or a meaning of causing something to form imperative transitive verbs.
   morpheme
2. Forms adjectives related to certain base words of Arabic or Persian origin.
   morpheme
3. -ee.
   morpheme, obsolete
4. Gives a locative meaning, that is, of stating a locational element to imperative verbs.
   morpheme
5. Forms a transitive version of the base verb with any of the aforementioned properties for the benefit of one another.
   morpheme, reciprocal, verb

Examples

“hamba (“slave”) + -i → hambai (“enslave”)”

“baik (“good”) + -i → baiki (“to make something good; to fix”)”

“tumpah (“to fall out”) + -i → tumpahi (“fall onto”)”

“dekat (“close, near”) + -i → dekati (“get closer or nearer to; to approach”)”

“abad (“century”) + -i → abadi (“eternal, everlasting”)”

“bahar (“sea”) + -i → bahari (“sea-related”)”

“firdaus (“paradise”) + -i → firdausi (“paradisiacal”)”

“hakikat (“reality, fact”) + -i → hakiki (“true”)”

“maghrib (“west”) + -i → maghribi (“western”)”

“Habsyah (“Abyssinia (obs.), Ethiopia (mod.)”) + -i → Habsyi (“Ethiopian”)”

“Qibt + -i → Qibti (“a Copt, anything pertaining their Coptic culture”)”

“Rum (“Rome”) + -i → Rumi (“Roman”)”

“Syatibah (“Xàtiva”) + -i → Syatibi (“someone from Xàtiva, a setabense”)”

“francaisi”

franchisee

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