Frédéric Mistral - Poet and Leader in Provence by Charles Alfred Downer
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This corresponds to the French -ment; bastimen = bâtiment, _ship_. abouli, _to abolish_. aboulimen, _abolition_. toumba, _to fall_. toumbamen, _fall_. -men (adverb). urous, urouso, _happy_. urousamen, _happily_. It is to be noted here that the adverb has the vowel of the old feminine termination _a_, and not the modern _o_. -ot (masc.), -oto (fem.). A diminutive suffix. vilo, _town_. viloto, _little town_. Sometimes the stem no longer exists separately. mignot, mignoto, _darling_. pichot, pichoto, _little boy_, _little girl_. |
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