A Descriptive Grammar of Estonian |
Common terms and phrases
adessive allomorph distribution anomalous verb apocope attested C-stem C₂ case-number suffixes Chronemes cluster allophone environment clusters of unlike consonant length consonant stem-allomorphs contoid corpus degrees of length elsewhere essive Estonian Examples extra-long extra-short free variation fricatives geminate geminate clusters gen.-sg genitive-plural genitive-singular half-long vowel illative-singular imperative indicated inflectional juncture käşi kşi kvass lajja maja medial morphemes morphophonemic ne/s nouns nouns of subclass obstruents occurs one-syllable öö open transition overlong part.-sg past-indicative Paul Ariste phoneme or cluster pitch plain stress portmanteau portmanteau morphs position post-alveolar Posti postposed stress present-indicative resonant second syllable secondary case suffix sequences single allomorph single vowel stem-allomorphs of subclass sub-laryngeal subclass 12 suffixed to vowel syllabic nucleus syllable boundaries syllable onset taevas tense-mood suffixes terminal contour tion two-syllable types unlike vowels verbs of subclass vocable vocoid vowel cluster vowel length vowel stem-allomorphs