-on2Englishsuffix indicating a modifier; suffix indicating inalienableThis form 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 toltol (restless, an intransitive verb) and toltolon (restless, a modifier preceding nouns), and kom (horn on an animal, a noun) and komon (its horn, inalienable noun).-enán/-án

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