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Suffixaufnahme (German for "suffix-absorption") is a linguistic phenomenon whereby a genitive noun declines to match its head noun, and vice-versa. It is present in Old Georgian and some other Caucasian and ancient Middle Eastern languages as well as many Australian languages, and almost invariably coincides with agglutinativity. Broadly conceived, linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and a linguist is someone who engages in this study. ... The genitive case is a grammatical case that indicates a relationship, primarily one of possession, between the noun in the genitive case and another noun. ... In linguistics, declension is a feature of inflected languages: generally, the alteration of a noun to indicate its grammatical role. ... In linguistics, the head is the main part of a compound or phrase. ... The term Caucasian languages is loosely used to refer to a large and extremely varied array of languages spoken by more than 7 million people in the Caucasus region of Eastern Europe, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... The Australian Aboriginal languages are a Australia, and the rest are descended linguistically from them. ... An agglutinative language is a language in which the words are formed by joining morphemes together. ...


A subject, for instance, would be marked with a subjective affix as well as a genitive affix. In the sentence "The dog's tongue is blue", the word "tongue" would have a subjective affix, whereas "dog" would have both a subjective affix and a genitive affix. See subject (grammar) for the linguistic definition of subject. ... An affix is a morpheme that is attached to a base morpheme such as a root or to a stem, to form a word. ...


A noun possessing another noun that possesses a noun would be marked with a subjective affix and two genitive affixes, to indicate that it is possessing a possessive. For example, in the sentence "The doctor's dog's tongue was blue", the word "doctor" would have a subject affix and two genitive affixes.


This happens sometimes in some Indo-European languages where declinable adjectives serve as genitives, for example:- Proto-Indo-European Indo-European studies Indo-European is originally a linguistic term, referring to the Indo-European language family. ...

  • Latin vacca mea = "my cow"; vaccae meae cauda = "my cow's tail".

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Latin is an Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...


Languages with suffixaufnahme

Living languages

Bats, or Batsi, Batsbi, Batsb, Batsaw, is the language of a the Bats people, a Caucasian minority group, and is part of the Nakh family of Caucasian languages. ...

Dead Languages

Jiwarli is an Australian Aboriginal language formerly spoken in Western Australia. ...

Ancient languages

Elamite is an extinct language, which was spoken in the ancient Elamite Empire. ... The Sumerian language of ancient Sumer was spoken in Southern Mesopotamia from at least the 4th millennium BC. Sumerian was replaced by Akkadian as a spoken language around 2000 BC, but continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial and scientific language in Mesopotamia until about 1 AD. Then, it...

See also

Grammar is the discovery, enunciation, and study of rules governing the use of language. ... The genitive case is a grammatical case that indicates a relationship, primarily one of possession, between the noun in the genitive case and another noun. ... In linguistics, declension is a feature of inflected languages: generally, the alteration of a noun to indicate its grammatical role. ...

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Suffixaufnahme - FrathWiki (148 words)
Suffixaufnahme is a grammatical device that occurs in some languages with case systems.
It means that possessors are inflected for the case and number of the possessee as if they were adjectives.
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Old Albic - FrathWiki (6283 words)
The case of the possessum is marked on the genitive by suffixaufnahme.
Suffixaufnahme is only mandatory if the dependent noun is moved away from the head noun; in ordinary speech, the secondary endings are usually omitted.
When the object of a preposition is a pronoun, the pronoun precedes the preposition (which thus acts as a postposition) and is combined with it into a single word.
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