-ler

From rebracketing of stems ending in -l and the suffix -er, in words like Sattler, Ziegler, and in derivations from diminutive verbs in -eln.

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-ler m (strong, genitive -lers, plural -ler)

1. Used to create nouns linking a person (or thing) to some group, activity, object; similar to -er, but usually attached to nouns, not verbs.

When used to create nouns referring to people, it often has a dismissive or mildly derogatory tone. Hausbesetzler (“one who takes over a building, squatter”) for example indicates that the speaker disdains the squatter or does not consider the cause serious, while Hausbesetzer is a neutral descriptor.

• Bastian Sick (2005) “Von Protestlern, Widerständlern und Abweichlern”, in Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod, volume 1, page 160

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /-lir/, [-lɜʁ]

-ler (n-v^?, truncative^?)

1. provides with

   aki (“currency, price”) -> akilerpaa (“pays”)

   ateq (“name”) -> atserpaa (“names, gives a name to”)

Sometimes fusioning. When used intransitively, may have a reflexive meaning.

-ler (v-v^?, truncative^?)

1. has begun to [verb], is about to [verb], is in the process of [verb]ing

• Bjørnum, S.: Grønlandsk Grammatik, p. 241. Atuagkat 2003.

• -ler in Katersat
• Bjørnum, S.: Grønlandsk Grammatik, p. 240. Atuagkat 2003.

From Ottoman Turkish ـلر, ultimately from Proto-Common Turkic *-ler, a plural suffix which is absent from Proto-Turkic. Found as Old Turkic [script needed] (-lar) (back variant) but not found in the sister Oghur branch (compare Chuvash -сем (-sem), Bulgar ـڛَم), where it descended from *sāyïn (“every”). The Chuvash plural suffix, however, lacks vowel harmony unlike other suffixes.

• IPA^(key): /leɾ/, (before vowels or at end of speech) [leɾ], (before consonants) [læɾ]

-ler

1. Used to form plurals of nouns.

   ‎çiçek (“flower”) + ‎-ler → ‎çiçekler (“flowers”)

   Bu ülkede daima Mustafa Kemaller olacak. ― There will always be people like Mustafa Kemal in this country.

   Teyzemlere gideceğiz. ― We will go to my aunt's (home).