Equative case
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Equative is a case with the meaning of comparison, or likening. The equative case has been used in very few languages in history. It was used in the Sumerian language
.
For Sumerian, the equative was formed by adding the suffix -gin7 to the end of a noun phrase:
For Ossetic
it is formed by the ending -ау [aw]:
It is also found in the Turkic Khalaj language
and in languages from South America like Quechua
, Aymara
, Uro
and Cholón.
Welsh
, though it has no equative case of nouns, has an equative degree of adjectives.
Sireniki Eskimo had an equative (or comparative) case for describing similarities between nouns.
Finnish has the derivational suffixes -mainen and -lainen that have the same meaning, but form new words rather than functioning as grammatical case suffixes. For example, kuningas ~ kuningasmainen "king ~ kinglike".
Equative is a case with the meaning of comparison, or likening. The equative case has been used in very few languages in history. It was used in the Sumerian language
.
For Sumerian, the equative was formed by adding the suffix -gin7 to the end of a noun phrase:
For Ossetic
it is formed by the ending -ау [aw]:
It is also found in the Turkic Khalaj language
and in languages from South America like Quechua
, Aymara
, Uro
and Cholón.
Welsh
, though it has no equative case of nouns, has an equative degree of adjectives.
Sireniki Eskimo had an equative (or comparative) case for describing similarities between nouns.
Finnish has the derivational suffixes -mainen and -lainen that have the same meaning, but form new words rather than functioning as grammatical case suffixes. For example, kuningas ~ kuningasmainen "king ~ kinglike".
Equative is a case with the meaning of comparison, or likening. The equative case has been used in very few languages in history. It was used in the Sumerian language
.
For Sumerian, the equative was formed by adding the suffix -gin7 to the end of a noun phrase:
For Ossetic
it is formed by the ending -ау [aw]:
It is also found in the Turkic Khalaj language
and in languages from South America like Quechua
, Aymara
, Uro
and Cholón.
Welsh
, though it has no equative case of nouns, has an equative degree of adjectives.
Sireniki Eskimo had an equative (or comparative) case for describing similarities between nouns.
Finnish has the derivational suffixes -mainen and -lainen that have the same meaning, but form new words rather than functioning as grammatical case suffixes. For example, kuningas ~ kuningasmainen "king ~ kinglike".
Sumerian language
Sumerian is the language of ancient Sumer, which was spoken in southern Mesopotamia since at least the 4th millennium BC. During the 3rd millennium BC, there developed a very intimate cultural symbiosis between the Sumerians and the Akkadians, which included widespread bilingualism...
.
For Sumerian, the equative was formed by adding the suffix -gin7 to the end of a noun phrase:
- lugal, "king"; lugal-gin7, "kinglike", "like a king":
- nitah-kalaga; "mighty man"; nitah-kalaga-gin7, "like a mighty man"
For Ossetic
Ossetic language
Ossetian , also sometimes called Ossete, is an East Iranian language spoken in Ossetia, a region on the slopes of the Caucasus Mountains....
it is formed by the ending -ау [aw]:
- фæт, "arrow"; фæтау, "arrowlike"
- Ницы фенæгау йæхи акодта, lit. "nothingseer-like himself made" ("[he or she] pretended to see nothing").
It is also found in the Turkic Khalaj language
Khalaj language
Khalaj is a Turkic language spoken in Iran.It is a member of the Azerbaijani subgroup of the Oghuz languages.There were approximately 42,000 speakers of this language as of 2000...
and in languages from South America like Quechua
Quechua languages
Quechua is a Native South American language family and dialect cluster spoken primarily in the Andes of South America, derived from an original common ancestor language, Proto-Quechua. It is the most widely spoken language family of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a total of probably...
, Aymara
Aymara
The Aymara or Aimara are an indigenous ethnic group in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America; about 2 million live in Bolivia, Peru and Chile...
, Uro
Uro
Uro is a town in Nigeria, in Isoko South Local Government Area in Delta State. It has an estimated population of 3,500 people.It is the first town in the region to have electricity via a generator and the first town to have secondary school in Isoko South, called Uro Grammar School...
and Cholón.
Welsh
Welsh language
Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...
, though it has no equative case of nouns, has an equative degree of adjectives.
Sireniki Eskimo had an equative (or comparative) case for describing similarities between nouns.
Finnish has the derivational suffixes -mainen and -lainen that have the same meaning, but form new words rather than functioning as grammatical case suffixes. For example, kuningas ~ kuningasmainen "king ~ kinglike".
Equative is a case with the meaning of comparison, or likening. The equative case has been used in very few languages in history. It was used in the Sumerian language
Sumerian language
Sumerian is the language of ancient Sumer, which was spoken in southern Mesopotamia since at least the 4th millennium BC. During the 3rd millennium BC, there developed a very intimate cultural symbiosis between the Sumerians and the Akkadians, which included widespread bilingualism...
.
For Sumerian, the equative was formed by adding the suffix -gin7 to the end of a noun phrase:
- lugal, "king"; lugal-gin7, "kinglike", "like a king":
- nitah-kalaga; "mighty man"; nitah-kalaga-gin7, "like a mighty man"
For Ossetic
Ossetic language
Ossetian , also sometimes called Ossete, is an East Iranian language spoken in Ossetia, a region on the slopes of the Caucasus Mountains....
it is formed by the ending -ау [aw]:
- фæт, "arrow"; фæтау, "arrowlike"
- Ницы фенæгау йæхи акодта, lit. "nothingseer-like himself made" ("[he or she] pretended to see nothing").
It is also found in the Turkic Khalaj language
Khalaj language
Khalaj is a Turkic language spoken in Iran.It is a member of the Azerbaijani subgroup of the Oghuz languages.There were approximately 42,000 speakers of this language as of 2000...
and in languages from South America like Quechua
Quechua languages
Quechua is a Native South American language family and dialect cluster spoken primarily in the Andes of South America, derived from an original common ancestor language, Proto-Quechua. It is the most widely spoken language family of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a total of probably...
, Aymara
Aymara
The Aymara or Aimara are an indigenous ethnic group in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America; about 2 million live in Bolivia, Peru and Chile...
, Uro
Uro
Uro is a town in Nigeria, in Isoko South Local Government Area in Delta State. It has an estimated population of 3,500 people.It is the first town in the region to have electricity via a generator and the first town to have secondary school in Isoko South, called Uro Grammar School...
and Cholón.
Welsh
Welsh language
Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...
, though it has no equative case of nouns, has an equative degree of adjectives.
Sireniki Eskimo had an equative (or comparative) case for describing similarities between nouns.
Finnish has the derivational suffixes -mainen and -lainen that have the same meaning, but form new words rather than functioning as grammatical case suffixes. For example, kuningas ~ kuningasmainen "king ~ kinglike".
Equative is a case with the meaning of comparison, or likening. The equative case has been used in very few languages in history. It was used in the Sumerian language
Sumerian language
Sumerian is the language of ancient Sumer, which was spoken in southern Mesopotamia since at least the 4th millennium BC. During the 3rd millennium BC, there developed a very intimate cultural symbiosis between the Sumerians and the Akkadians, which included widespread bilingualism...
.
For Sumerian, the equative was formed by adding the suffix -gin7 to the end of a noun phrase:
- lugal, "king"; lugal-gin7, "kinglike", "like a king":
- nitah-kalaga; "mighty man"; nitah-kalaga-gin7, "like a mighty man"
For Ossetic
Ossetic language
Ossetian , also sometimes called Ossete, is an East Iranian language spoken in Ossetia, a region on the slopes of the Caucasus Mountains....
it is formed by the ending -ау [aw]:
- фæт, "arrow"; фæтау, "arrowlike"
- Ницы фенæгау йæхи акодта, lit. "nothingseer-like himself made" ("[he or she] pretended to see nothing").
It is also found in the Turkic Khalaj language
Khalaj language
Khalaj is a Turkic language spoken in Iran.It is a member of the Azerbaijani subgroup of the Oghuz languages.There were approximately 42,000 speakers of this language as of 2000...
and in languages from South America like Quechua
Quechua languages
Quechua is a Native South American language family and dialect cluster spoken primarily in the Andes of South America, derived from an original common ancestor language, Proto-Quechua. It is the most widely spoken language family of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a total of probably...
, Aymara
Aymara
The Aymara or Aimara are an indigenous ethnic group in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America; about 2 million live in Bolivia, Peru and Chile...
, Uro
Uro
Uro is a town in Nigeria, in Isoko South Local Government Area in Delta State. It has an estimated population of 3,500 people.It is the first town in the region to have electricity via a generator and the first town to have secondary school in Isoko South, called Uro Grammar School...
and Cholón.
Welsh
Welsh language
Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...
, though it has no equative case of nouns, has an equative degree of adjectives.
Sireniki Eskimo had an equative (or comparative) case for describing similarities between nouns.
Finnish has the derivational suffixes -mainen and -lainen that have the same meaning, but form new words rather than functioning as grammatical case suffixes. For example, kuningas ~ kuningasmainen "king ~ kinglike".