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• … w Songhay cognates can take the feminine marker to mark the diminutive: (66) Diminutive on Songhay cognates rope karfú t-a-kárfu-t hamborí t-a-hambóri-t mortar cíidaw t-a-cídaw-t bird Note the stress shift of the two first expressions with the prefixed full syllable. Many nouns have feminine morphology, but do not allow for gender opposition. Sometimes, this seems to be linked to the inherent semantics of the word, as in t-a-ḷíceṭ-ṭ ‘little finger’. One group of nouns which v …

  Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 105

• … lural i-máaṛ-an gloss relative (family) a-báktaw i-bákt-an old cushion a-ʃígnaw i-ʃígn-an thread (sew) ée-caw í-cc-an root áfraw áfr-an ~ í-fr-an feather; wing cíidaw cíid-an bird léelaw léel-an speech a-máaṛaw Monosyllabic Songhay cognates do not lose the final /w/, i.e. ‘insult’ wâw / wáaw-en ‘female camel’ yáw / yaaw-én. /y/ final nouns show more variety in behavior than the /w/ final nouns described above. For Songhay cognates the suffix /-en/ is expected. This is illustr …

  Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 119