-ф

Perhaps related to Estonian -v, e.g., elav (“lively”) from elama (“to live”), Finnish elävä.

-ф • (-f)

1. past passive participle suffix
   • V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, →ISBN

     тонафнеф

     tonafne f

     educated

From Proto-Nivkh *-v, with regular word-final devoicing of a voiced fricative.

• IPA^(key): /-f/

-ф (-f)

1. Forms nouns denoting places from verbs

   ‎едь (jed̦) + ‎-ф (-f) → ‎еф (jef)