-ti-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ti"

Chichewa

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *tʊ́-

Infix

-ti-

1. 1st person plural object concord, us.

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti/

Interfix

-ti-

1. A ligature connecting relational suffixes to nouns.

   -tlan (“under, around”) → -titlan

   calli (“house”) + -titlan → caltitlan (“around, under a house”)

2. A ligature connecting auxiliaries to the perfect stem of verbs.

   tlanēci (“to dawn, to be daytime”) + -ti- + mani (“to be spread out, to cover an area”) → tlanēztimani (“for an area to be under clear, sunny weather”)

   tōna (“to be sunny, warm, bright”) + -ti- + -uh (“to go along doing something”) → tōnatiuh (“it goes along emitting heat and light, i.e. the Sun”)

Derived terms

Classical Nahuatl terms interfixed with -ti-

mictihuetzi

Tenochtitlan

tonatiuh

Tumbuka

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *tʊ́- (“us”).

Infix

-ti-

1. 1st person plural object concord, us

References

• William Y. Turner (1996), Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English - Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary‎^[1], Central Africana Limited, page 142