-ilia

See also: ilia

Latin

Suffix

-īlia

nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of -īlis

Swahili

Etymology

Double applicative, from -ia +‎ -lia. One of the meanings of the applicative is finality or completeness, and this is the meaning intended in the reduplicated form.^[1]

Suffix

-ilia (mid vowel harmony variant -elea)

(nonproductive) continuing and persisting with an action
‎-shika (“to hold”) + ‎-ilia → ‎-shikilia (“to hold tight, to clutch”)

Derived terms

Swahili terms suffixed with -ilia

References

^ Lodhi, Abdulaziz Y. (2002) “Verbal extensions in Bantu (the case of Swahili and Nyamwezi)”, in Africa & Asia‎^[1], volume 2, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2009-12-11, section 3.2, page 11 of 4-26.

[1] Lodhi, Abdulaziz Y. (2002) “Verbal extensions in Bantu (the case of Swahili and Nyamwezi)”, in Africa & Asia‎^[1], volume 2, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2009-12-11, section 3.2, page 11 of 4-26.

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