-te
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "te"
Chuukese
Suffix
-te
Dutch
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch -ede, from Old Dutch -itha, from Proto-West Germanic *-iþu, from Proto-Germanic *-iþō. More at -th.
Middle Dutch -ede was shortened to -de in late Middle Dutch, and the suffix was devoiced to -te according to the 't kofschip rule. This voiceless variety was then taken to be the suffix proper and the voiced variety gradually fell out of use.
Suffix
- appended to an adjective, making a feminine noun which refers to the size or quality referred to by the adjective, cognate to -th.
- appended to the stem of a verb, yields a feminine noun which refers to the object of such a verb.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Suffix
-te
- See ge- -te.
Etymology 3
Suffix
-te
German
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle High German -te, -ete, from a merger of several Old High German conjugations.
Alternative forms
- -ete (used with most stems in -d, -t, and consonant + -n, -m)
Suffix
-te
Etymology 2
From Middle Low German and Middle Dutch -te, from Proto-Germanic *-iþō, whence also inherited but equally rare German -de.
Suffix
-te f (plural -ten)
- (rare, not productive, only as synchronic surface analysis) forms nouns from adjectives
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Suffix
-te
-
- (past-tense suffix) Forms the third-person singular indicative past definite form of verbs.
- (verbal-participle suffix) Forms the verbal participle of verbs, always following the agent noun.
- nevel (“to bring up, to raise”) + -te → [az anyja] nevelte [gyermek] (“[the child] raised by [his/her mother]”, literally “his/her-mother-raised child”)
- (noun-forming suffix) Forms nouns from certain verbs (cf. -és), incorporating the third-person singular possessive suffix (-e), which can be replaced by other personal possessive suffixes.
Usage notes
- (past-tense and verbal-participle suffix) Variants:
- -ta is added to most back-vowel verbs
- -te is added to most front-vowel verbs
- -tta is added to back-vowel verbs ending in a vowel (hí, rí, szí; ó, ró; fú)
- -tte is added to front-vowel verbs ending in a vowel (lő, nő, sző; nyű)
- -otta is added to back-vowel verbs ending in two consonants or a long vowel + t, or to monosyllables ending in -t (fut, nyit, except lát)
- -ette is added to unrounded front-vowel verbs ending in two consonants or a long vowel + t, or to monosyllables ending in -t (vet)
- -ötte is added to rounded front-vowel verbs ending in two consonants or a long vowel + t, or to monosyllables ending in -t (köt, süt, üt)
- (noun-forming suffix) Variants:
- -ta is added to most back-vowel verbs
- -te is added to most front-vowel verbs
- -tte is added to front-vowel verbs that originally ended in a vowel (like jön, originally jő)
- -ata is added to back-vowel verbs that form the infinitive with a linking vowel (like hall)
- -ete is added to front-vowel verbs that form the infinitive with a linking vowel (like kell)
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- Károly, Sándor. Az istenadta-féle szerkezetek személyragos tagjának szófaji jellegéről (“On the part of speech of the personal-suffixed elements of istenadta [‘God-given’]-like structures”). In: Nyelvtudományi Közlemények (“Linguistic Publications”), vol. 59 (1957), pp. 130–150.
- Simonyi, Zsigmond. Isten-adta (“God-given”). In: Magyar Nyelvőr (“Hungarian Language Guardian”), vol. XXXVI (1907), pp. 16–35 in the offprint (issue 5, May 15 in the original, pp. 193–205, 264–271).
Irish
Suffix
-te
Japanese
Romanization
-te
Latin
Suffix
-te
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French -te, -tet, from Latin -tās, -tātem; compare -ite.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Suffix
-te
- Forms abstract nouns from adjectives.
- Synonym: -ite
Usage notes
- Syncope sometimes results in the replacement of -ite with -te. For instance, trinte is sometimes found for trinite (“Trinity”).
- Conversely, learned influence may sometimes result in -te with -ite, especially when the word goes back to a Latin original with -itās. This is exemplified by the replacement of personalte (“personality”) with personalite in later Middle English (compare Latin persōnālitās).
- As in modern English, -ite tends to attract stress to the antepenultimate syllable, while -te leaves stress where it was on the root.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “-tẹ̄, suf.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Suffix
-te
- (following fricatives) Alternative form of -th (abstract nominal suffix)
Etymology 3
Suffix
-te
- (following fricatives) Alternative form of -the (abstract nominal suffix)
Etymology 4
Suffix
-te
- (following fricatives) Alternative form of -the (ordinal suffix)
Etymology 5
Suffix
-te
- Alternative form of -ty
Old English
Suffix
-te
Saterland Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian -te, -ithe, from Proto-Germanic *-iþō. More at -th.
Suffix
-te f
- Forms abstract nouns from verbs, adjectives, or other nouns; -th
Derived terms
Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
Etymology
Suffix
-te
- Used to form adjectives from nouns, in the sense of having the object represented by the noun.
Derived terms
Swedish
Alternative forms
Suffix
-te
- Alternative form of -de; suffix to create preterite tense of verbs if the stem ends in an unvoiced consonant (this form of the suffix is only applicable to verbs which end in -er in the present tense)
Anagrams
Turkish
Suffix
-te
- Alternative form of -da (locative suffix) (after a front vowel followed by an unvoiced consonant)
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