-tar
See also: tar, Tar, TAR, tár, tår, tar-, -tär, and Appendix:Variations of "tar"
Estonian
Etymology
Cognate to Finnish -tar.
Suffix
-tar (genitive -tari, partitive -tari)
- Forms feminine agent or occupational nouns
- kaunis "beautiful" → kaunitar "beautiful woman"
- laulja "singer" → lauljatar "female singer"
Declension
Inflection of -tar (ÕS type 19/seminar, no gradation)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | -tar | -tarid |
| accusative | -tari | -tarid |
| genitive | -tari | -taride |
| partitive | -tari | -tare -tarisid |
| illative | -tari -tarisse | -taridesse -taresse |
| inessive | -taris | -tarides -tares |
| elative | -tarist | -taridest -tarest |
| allative | -tarile | -taridele -tarele |
| adessive | -taril | -taridel -tarel |
| ablative | -tarilt | -taridelt -tarelt |
| translative | -tariks | -tarideks -tareks |
| terminative | -tarini | -tarideni |
| essive | -tarina | -taridena |
| abessive | -tarita | -tarideta |
| comitative | -tariga | -taridega |
Synonyms
- -nna (in some cases)
Derived terms
► <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Estonian_words_suffixed_with_-tar' title='Category:Estonian words suffixed with -tar'>Estonian words suffixed with -tar</a>
Finnish
Etymology
Supposedly clipped from tytär (“daughter”) and then adapted to vowel harmony.
Suffix
-tar (front vowel harmony variant -tär)
- Forms the female counterpart of nouns indicating a person.
- kuningas king → kuningatar queen
- näyttelijä actor → näyttelijätär actress
- saksalainen German → saksatar a German female
Usage notes
- This is a nominal suffix, i.e. attached to nouns.
- The suffix is appended to the weak stem.
- With words ending in -lainen, -tar is appended to the stem not including -lainen.
- Nowadays it's uncommon and old fashioned to use the female forms of professions.
Declension
| Inflection of -tar (Kotus type 32/sisar, tt-t gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | -tar | -ttaret | |
| genitive | -ttaren | -ttarien -tarten | |
| partitive | -tarta | -ttaria | |
| illative | -ttareen | -ttariin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | -tar | -ttaret | |
| accusative | nom. | -tar | -ttaret |
| gen. | -ttaren | ||
| genitive | -ttaren | -ttarien -tarten | |
| partitive | -tarta | -ttaria | |
| inessive | -ttaressa | -ttarissa | |
| elative | -ttaresta | -ttarista | |
| illative | -ttareen | -ttariin | |
| adessive | -ttarella | -ttarilla | |
| ablative | -ttarelta | -ttarilta | |
| allative | -ttarelle | -ttarille | |
| essive | -ttarena | -ttarina | |
| translative | -ttareksi | -ttariksi | |
| instructive | — | -ttarin | |
| abessive | -ttaretta | -ttaritta | |
| comitative | — | -ttarineen | |
Derived terms
► <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Finnish_words_suffixed_with_-tar' title='Category:Finnish words suffixed with -tar'>Finnish words suffixed with -tar</a>
Related terms
- -tär (front vowel variant)
Greenlandic
Affix
-tar (v-v?, additive?, VTV → VsV?)
- Signifies habitual behaviour.
- atuarpoq (“attends school (once)”) -> atuartarpoq (“attends school (is a student)”)
- 1992, "[timarit.is/view_page_init.jsp?issId=269791&pageId=3833037&lang=da Usuni kipigaa]", Atuagagdliutit
- Nammineq tissassarluni inersinnaannginnerluni anisuualu qanoq ililluni anisassava?
- I wonder if s/he will be unable to stimulate hirself to an orgasm, and how will the semen leave?
- Nammineq tissassarluni inersinnaannginnerluni anisuualu qanoq ililluni anisassava?
Usage notes
Was formerly sometimes truncative.
Derived terms
► <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Greenlandic_words_suffixed_with_-tar' title='Category:Greenlandic words suffixed with -tar'>Greenlandic words suffixed with -tar</a>
References
- Vestgrønlandsk grammatik, p. 124, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014
- -tar in Katersat
- Vestgrønlandsk grammatik, p. 75, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014