-la

Other scripts

Cyrillic		-ла
Abjad		-لا

• IPA^(key): [lɑ]

preceding vowel
A / I / O / U	E / Ə / İ / Ö / Ü
-la	-lə

-la

1. Form of -lə after the vowels A / I / O / U.

See -lə.

• -ela (in certain environments, see usage notes)

-la

1. that

   Erantzuna dakizula uste dut. ― I think that you know the answer.

2. while, as

   Menditik nenbilela istripu bat izan nuen. ― I had an accident while hiking on the mountains.

The form taken by this clitic depends on the ending of the verbal form to which it is attached.

• In verb forms ending with -ke, the result is -keela. Forms like naitekela are nonstandard but widespread.

  ‎naiteke (“I can”) + ‎-la → ‎naitekeela (“that I can”).

• In verb forms ending with -n (excluding second-person singular informal feminine forms, see below), the -n is removed.

  ‎nintzen (“I was”) + ‎-la → ‎nintzela (“that I was”).

• In verb forms ending with -t, the result is -dala.

  ‎dakit (“I know it”) + ‎-la → ‎dakidala (“that I know it”).

• In second-person singular informal forms, the endings in -k or -n become -ala and -nala respectively.

  ‎duk (“you (masculine) have it”) + ‎-la → ‎duala (“that you (masculine) have it”).

  ‎dun (“you (feminine) have it”) + ‎-la → ‎dunala (“that you (feminine) have it”).

• In verb forms ending in -u where the ending is not related to the -gu, -zu person markers, the result is -uela.

  ‎ditu (“he has them”) + ‎-la → ‎dituela (“that he has them”).

• In auxiliary forms ending in -a the ending becomes -ela.

  ‎dira (“they are”) + ‎-la → ‎direla (“that they are”).

• All other forms ending in a vowel take the suffix -la and those ending in -z the variant -ela.

  ‎naiz (“I am”) + ‎-la → ‎naizela (“that I am”).

  ‎zarete (“you are”) + ‎-la → ‎zaretela (“that you are”).

  ‎dakartza (“he carries them”) + ‎-la → ‎dakartzala (“that he carries them”).

Unknown, perhaps related to the allative suffix -ra.^[1]

-la

1. Used to form adverbs from interrogative and demonstrative pronouns/determiners.

   ‎nor (“who?”) + ‎-la → ‎nola (“how?”)

From Proto-Finnic *-la. Cognate with Finnish -la.

-la (genitive -la, partitive -lat)

1. Forms nouns that signify a place.

   ‎haige (“sick”) + ‎-la → ‎haigla (“hospital”)

   ‎kana (“chicken”) + ‎-la → ‎kanala (“chicken coop”)

Declension of -la (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		-la	-lad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	-la
genitive			-late
partitive		-lat	-laid
illative		-lasse	-latesse -laisse
inessive		-las	-lates -lais
elative		-last	-latest -laist
allative		-lale	-latele -laile
adessive		-lal	-latel -lail
ablative		-lalt	-latelt -lailt
translative		-laks	-lateks -laiks
terminative		-lani	-lateni
essive		-lana	-latena
abessive		-lata	-lateta
comitative		-laga	-latega

From Proto-Finnic *-la, from Proto-Finno-Ugric [Term?]. Cognate with Estonian -la.

-la (front vowel harmony variant -lä, linguistic notation -lA)

2. Forms nouns that signify a place, such as an abode, a house, a land of, etc. Often denotes a farm in many place names.

   ‎Kaleva + ‎-la → ‎Kalevala (“the land of Kaleva”)

   ‎kana (“hen”) + ‎-la → ‎kanala (“henhouse”)

   ‎ravinto (“nourishment”) + ‎-la → ‎ravintola (“restaurant”)

   ‎Jussi + ‎-la → ‎Jussila (“the farm of Jussi”)

4. Forms some nouns or adjectives, originally with a diminutive meaning.

• About 12% of Finns have a surname ending in -la/-lä, transferred from names of farms and small villages (oikonyms, talonnimi).

From Proto-Finnic *-la. Cognates include Finnish -la and Estonian -la.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /-lɑ/, [-ɫɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /-lɑ/, [-ɫɑ]

-la (front vowel variant -lä)

1. Used to form place names.

   ‎(name) Soikko + ‎-la → ‎Soikkola

2. Used to form nouns signifying a place.

   ‎seppo (“smith”) + ‎-la → ‎seppola (“house of a smith”)

Declension of -la (type 3/kana, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	-la	-lat
genitive	-lan	-loin
partitive	-laa	-loja
illative	-laa	-loihe
inessive	-laas	-lois
elative	-last	-loist
allative	-lalle	-loille
adessive	-laal	-loil
ablative	-lalt	-loilt
translative	-laks	-loiks
essive	-lanna, -laan	-loinna, -loin
exessive1)	-lant	-loint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• A. V. Krjukov (2018) “К этимологии топонима Сойкино/Soikkola”, in Притяжение Севера: язык, литература, социум. Ч. 1: материалы I Международной научно-практической конференции, pages 531-542

-la

1. (enclitic) Alternative form of la

   dare (“to give”) → darla (“to give her”)

   vendere (“to sell”) → venderla (“to sell her”)

   servire (“to serve”) → servirla (“to serve her”)

• Appended to present active infinitive verb forms to derive accusative forms when the object is third singular feminine person. The final -e of the original infinitive is removed :

-are → -arla

-ere → -erla

-ire → -irla

Where the verb ends in -rre, the final re is removed, leaving behind just an -r:

introdurre (“to introduce”) → introdurla (“to introduce her”)

In any case, after the suffixation, there is only a single r and no vowels immediately before -la.

• al

preceding vowel
A / I / O / U	E / Ə / İ / Ö / Ü
-la	-lə

-la

1. Form of -lə after the vowels A / I / O / U.

-la

1. inflection of -lus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

-lā

1. ablative feminine singular of -lus

-la

1. Used to form verbs with a perfective meaning

   ‎doari (“to be finished”) + ‎-la → ‎doarila (“to have finished”)

   ‎mwehlehl (“to be dizzy”) + ‎-la → ‎mwehlehlla (“to be unconcious”)

• Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese Reference Grammar, University of Hawaii Press 1977

• IPA^(key): /lɑ/

-la

1. imperative singular of -lian

From Proto-Germanic *-lōną.

-la

1. frequentative verbal suffix

From Proto-Germanic *-ilǭ (diminutive suffix).

-la f (strong masculine -ill)

1. forms diminutive nouns

   ‎mey + ‎-la → ‎meyla

-la

1. inflection of -ill (agent noun):
   1. indefinite accusative plural
   2. indefinite genitive plural
2. inflection of -ill (diminutive noun):
   1. indefinite accusative plural
   2. indefinite genitive plural
3. inflection of -ull (diminutive noun):
   1. indefinite accusative plural
   2. indefinite genitive plural
4. inflection of -ull (deverbative adjective):
   1. positive degree strong feminine accusative singular
   2. positive degree strong feminine accusative masculine
   3. positive degree weak masculine oblique singular
   4. positive degree weak feminine nominative singular
   5. positive degree weak neuter singular

-la (first person plural nominative, bound form of nganaṉa)

1. we (3 or more people)

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.

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

-la

1. at, on, in, near, with, etc. for proper nouns that end with a vowel. The equivalent of -ngka, and -ta.
2. an ending that you use before -kutu and -nguru with proper nouns.

This preposition is added to the end of the proper noun. Sometimes a helper vowel can be added before -la to make it end with a vowel. -ta should be used instead if the word ends with n or l.

-la

1. Makes "la" class verbs into commands.

It is added to the end of the verb stem (of the last verb in the series if there is a series of verbs in the command). Sometimes the pronoun -ya can be added after -la, this makes the command addressed to a group of people. Here that pronoun means second person plural instead of third person.

• la

Cognate to Turkish -le.

-la

1. with

   Men senla varğur.

   I will come with you.

1. Lacks vowel harmony. Therefore, sometimes it is not accepted as a suffix.

• 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985) “la”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎^[1], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 85

• IPA^(key): /la/

-la

1. marks the end of a sentence, (it was)

   nuwa diya-la

   He walked over there.

• "Tsuut'ina Linguistics (Video)." Youtube, uploaded by AlbertaUArts, 30 May. 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HICb45tGf-A

From Ottoman Turkish ـله (-la, -le), from Proto-Turkic *-la.

• IPA^(key): /ɫɑ/

-la

1. with, shortened form of ile

   babamla okula gidiyorum

   I am going to school with my father

2. by, shortened form of ile

   okula kaykayla gidiyorum

   I am going to school by skateboard

• If the word's last vowel is a front vowel (e, i, ö, ü), the ending becomes -le.

  annemle / trenle - with my mother / by train

  kuzenimle - with my cousin

  gözünle / troleybüsle - with your eye / by trolley bus

• If the word ends in a vowel, the ending becomes -yla, or after front vowel, -yle.

  arabayla - by car

  korkuyla - with fear

  gemiyle - by ship

  sevgiyle - with love

• If the ending is added to a proper noun, it must be used with an apostrophe.

  Barış'la - with Barış.

  Buğra'yla - with Buğra.

• Unlike most Turkish suffixes, this suffix is always unstressed; the stress in the combined word remains where it was in the word before suffixing.
• When -yla is added to a word ending in the back vowel "ı", the latter is raised to the front vowel "i" in the pronunciation; for example, the word dolayısıyla ("consequently") is pronounced as if it were dolayısiyla, thus violating the usual vowel harmony. This change in pronunciation is not reflected in the orthography.

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ـلا (-la).

• -le

• IPA^(key): /ɫɑ/

-la

1. A suffix creating verbs from nouns.

   ‎parmak (“finger”) + ‎-la → ‎parmaklamak (“to poke”)

   ‎sabah (“morning”) + ‎-la → ‎sabahlamak (“to stay awake till morning, spend a night”)

   ‎ter (“sweat”) + ‎-la → ‎terlemek (“to sweat”)

2. A suffix added to foreign verbs to create verb stems and allow for conjugation.

   favlamak ("to fave"), likelamak ("to like"), ghostlamak ("to ghost"), winlemek ("to win"), pushlamak ("to push"), burstlemek ("to burst"), etc.

-la

1. Appended to words to create a diminutive form of a noun.

• -ra (less common)

Unknown (per Sandman).

• IPA^(key): [lɑ~ɻɑ]

-la

1. (after nouns) from; indicates the source of an action.

   aga dadada gguan-la lai-lio.

   Elder brother just came from the temple.

   (Quoted in Janhunen et al., p. 60)

   gunse-la ha-lai-gu-ge-lio ze-li.

   S/he was dismissed from the company.

   (Quoted in Janhunen et al., p. 60)

2. (after verbs) if, when; indicates that the action of the verb is conditional, hypothetical, or set in the future.

   rolang sho-de je da nga-n-de mula ren se-gu-la diando rolang qhe-lai-li sho-de gu-li.

   As for this thing called ro-langs [type of Tibetan zombie], it is said that if a person among us dies, there will appear a ro-langs instead.

   (Quoted in Janhunen et al., p. 114)

• Juha Janhunen, Marja Peltomaa, Erika Sandman, Xiawu Dongzhou (2008) Wutun (LINCOM's Descriptive Grammar Series), volume 466, LINCOM Europa, →ISBN
• Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎^[2], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN