-enEnglishsuffix indicating a modifier; suffix indicating inalienableThis suffix occurs on intransitive verbs to change them into modifiers, and on alienable nouns to change them into inalienable nouns. It occurs in vowel harmony with the stem it attaches to, so erer (dry, an intransitive verb) and ereren (dry, a modifier), and deldel (banana leaf rib, a noun) and deldelen (its rib, inalienable noun).-on2án/-án

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