-aji
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Swahili
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *-aga (constantly repeated action or habitual state) + -i.[1][2]
Suffix
[edit]-aji
- (usually in m-wa class(I/II)) agent of an action or person who performs the action as their profession
- (in u class(XI)) fact of performing an action
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Polomé, Edgar C. (1967) Swahili Language Handbook (Language Handbook Series)[1], Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics, page 77:
- The agentive suffix {i}, added to the Bantu verbal derivational suffix *{ag} expressing a constantly repeated action or a habitual state, constitutes the Swahili complex nominal derivational suffix {aji}, which indicates more specifically the habitual doer of the action, especially the professional agent, {...} With the class-prefix {u}, the suffix {aji} expresses the abstract concept of the habitual action
- ^ Schadeberg, Thilo C. (1992) A Sketch of Swahili Morphology, 3rd edition, Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN
- Marten, Lutz, Gibson, Hannah, Guérois, Rozenn, Jerro, Kyle (2024) “Morphosyntactic variation in Old Swahili”, in Hannah Gibson, Rozenn Guérois, Gastor Mapunda, Lutz Marten, editors, Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Descriptive and comparative approaches[2], Berlin: Language Science Press, , →ISBN, page 389 of 373–420: “In addition, the agentive suffix -aji is also found, which appears to be an innovation in Swahili.”