-a

-asuffix詞源 3/ə/

• 1

  Marks singular nouns, with a foundation in Greek or Latin, often implying femininity, especially when contrasted with words terminating in -us.

• 2

  Changes an element or substance into an oxide.

  • magnesium + -a → magnesia

-asuffix詞源 4/ə/

• 1

  Marks nouns, with a foundation in Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese, implying femininity.

  • donna
  • signora

-asuffix詞源 5/ə/

• 1

  Added for metrical reasons to songs, poetry and verse, or as an empty filler syllable to other speech.

  • A merry heart goes all the day Your sad tires in a mile-a
  • I love to sing-a / about the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a, / I love to sing-a / about a sky of blue-a, or a tea for two-a.

-asuffix詞源 8/ə/

• 1

  informalto (infinitive marker)

  • oughta
  • wanna

-asuffix詞源 9/ə/

• 1

  informaldo (infinitive marker)

  • whatta
  • Yeah, Flav, I'm tired of them dissing brothers in the P.E. out there, we got to do something about this/(What-a we do? What-a we do?)

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• -um
• -on
• 've
• o'
• -er