-mää

Gagauz

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the dative inflection of Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (-mäk/-mak), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *-mek. Compare Turkish -mek, Azerbaijani -mək. The usage of the dative case as the infinitive suffix is probably a semantic loan from Romanian a, which also both conveys the same meaning as the Gagauz dative case and forms infinitives. By surface analysis, -mäk +‎ -ä

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mæː/

Suffix

-mää

  1. forms infinitves from verb roots ending with front vowels
  2. singular dative of -mäk
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