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====Usage notes====
====Usage notes====
The most freely attached of the reconstructed suffixes.
The most freely attached of the reconstructed suffixes.
====Descendants====
* {{desc|YCP-XA|-uɣ}}
* {{desc|YCP-XB|-u}} (word-final; ''-uɣ-'' medially)
* {{desc|YCP-XC|-uɣi}} (word-final; ''-uɣ-'' medially)

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Proto-Andusian

Etymology

Extracted from the frozen collective *ciᵐbuɣ (“forest”), beside *ciᵐb (“tree”); compare *cisuɣ (“village”).

Suffix

*-uɣ

  1. forms collectives and ensembles: a mass, gathering, or landscape of the base
  2. (by extension) the place characterized by the base

Usage notes

The most freely attached of the reconstructed suffixes.

Descendants

  • Proto-North-Andusian: *-uɣ
  • Proto-South-Andusian: *-u (word-final; -uɣ- medially)
  • Proto-Unterian: *-uɣi (word-final; -uɣ- medially)