Irish

Alternative forms

• -se (used after palatalized consonants and front vowels)

Suffix

-sa

1. emphatic suffix of the first-person singular; used after velarized consonants and back vowels
2. emphatic suffix of the second-person singular; used after velarized consonants and back vowels
3. emphatic suffix of the third-person singular feminine; used after velarized consonants and back vowels
4. emphatic suffix of the second-person plural; used after velarized consonants and back vowels

Usage notes

Spelled with a hyphen after -s, otherwise without a hyphen.

• Added to nouns (or adjectives modifying a noun) in the presence of the possessive adjective to emphasize the possessor rather than the thing possessed:

  mo chos-sa‎ ― my foot

  do charr deargsa‎ ― your sg red car

• Added to pronouns (both simple and prepositional) to add emphasis (not to create a reflexive pronoun):

  aistise‎ ― out of her

  sibhse‎ ― you pl

• Added to synthetic verb forms to add emphasis to the subject:

  cloisimse‎ ― I hear

  chloisteása‎ ― you sg used to hear

  chualabhairse‎ ― you pl heard

Derived terms

Related terms

• -ne
• -se

Japanese

Romanization

-sa

1. rōmaji reading of さ

Latin

Suffix

-sa

1. nominative feminine singular of -sus
2. nominative neuter plural of -sus
3. accusative neuter plural of -sus
4. vocative feminine singular of -sus
5. vocative neuter plural of -sus

1. ablative feminine singular of -sus

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• -se (slender form)
• -so

Suffix

-sa

1. myself (emphatic)

Usage notes

Added to nouns to emphasize a first-person singular possessor, to verbs to emphasize a first-person singular subject, and to inflected prepositions to emphasize a first-person singular object:

• Bíuu-sa oc irbáig dar far cenn-si fri Maccidóndu.

  "I (emph.) am boasting about you to the Macedonians."

The alternative form -se is used after slender consonants and front vowels.

Related terms

• -so
• -som
• -si
• -ni

Quechua

Suffix

-sa

1. Alternative spelling of -chka

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• -se (slender form)

Suffix

-sa

1. -self (emphatic)

Usage notes

• Added to prepositional pronouns (ending in a broad consonant) to add emphasis (not to create a reflexive pronoun):
  • Used in first-person singular: (e.g., agamsa).
  • Used in second-person singular: (e.g., ortsa).

Derived terms

See also

• -ne
• -san

Somali

Suffix

-sa

1. Usually placed at the end of verbs containing questions

   maxa samay-sa? - what do you do?