-tan

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tan"

Japanese

Romanization

-tan

1. Rōmaji transcription of たん

Pipil

Etymology

Compare with Classical Nahuatl -tlan.

Suffix

-tan

1. (added to nouns) a locative suffix denoting adjacency or distance below: Under, around, near, next to, among

Turkish

Suffix

-tan

1. Assimilated form of -den after the vowels A / I / O / U.

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• -chan (allomorph before i)

Etymology

From the singular/third-person form -ta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [-taŋ]

Suffix

-tan

1. Directs that the command or request expressed by a verb must be executed somewhere else and not at the place where the order was given when the verb is in the non-third-person plural, i.e. when the suffix is followed by -tö.

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 235