Portuguese affixes in Tetun Dili

Summary

Affix function number of borrowed affixes

Description

Information and examples are from Hajek (2006: 172).

1 nominalizer

‑dor ‘agent nominalizer’, someone who habitually does something (often pejorative), i.e. more restricted than the general agentive noun derivation in Portuguese, e.g. hemudór ‘drinker’ (from hemu ‘drink’) “the only Portuguese affix that can be applied to a native root” according to Hajek (2006: 172).