Common Lexeme

-no

Keywords: derivation, suffixes, prefixes, part-of-speech, word building, compound words

Pronunciation (IPA): -no 
Part of Speech: derivational affix 
Class: suffix, tight binding 
Forms: -no 
Glosses: TB 

Description:

The suffix -no changes a regular, loose binding modifier into a tight-binding modifier for modifying other modifiers. Not all modifiers can be sensibly converted into a tight binding modifier, and the use of this suffix is highly idiomatic. See the article on Modifiers for Modifiers for details. A classic example is 'mikteno', 'roughly', 'approximately', from 'mikte', which means the same thing but applies more to the head term or the whole phrase as opposed to another modifier in the phrase.

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