# -ya
## Bambara
### Suffix

-ya
* forms abstract nouns from adjectives or nouns
    ‎teri (“friend”) + ‎-ya → ‎teriya (“friendship”)
    ‎jan (“long”) + ‎-ya → ‎janya (“length”)

## Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin
### Etymology

From western Japanese や (ya, copula).

### Particle

-ya
* to be

### References

* Komei Hosokawa (1987) Malay talk on boat: an account of Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin‎ (in Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin)

## Cornish
### Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *-jamā. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

### Suffix

-ya
* Verbal suffix
    ‎red- + ‎-ya → ‎redya (“to read”)
    ‎rewl (“rule”) + ‎-ya → ‎rewlya (“to rule”)
    ‎urdh (“order”) + ‎-ya → ‎urdhya (“to initiate”)

#### Usage notes

* Used to form verbs with almost all borrowings and neologisms.

#### See also

* -a

### References

* ↑ 2020, An Gerlyver Meur, ed. Dr Ken George (3rd edition, p.663)

## Gagauz
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jɑ/

### Suffix

-ya
* Back vowel variant of -ä after vowels

## Japanese
### Romanization

-ya
* Rōmaji transcription of や

## Kambera
### Pronoun

-ya
* third person singular accusative enclitic

#### See also

| | Nominative | Genitive | Accusative | Dative |
| 1sg | ku- | -nggu | -ka | -ngga |
| 2sg | mu- (u-) | -mu | -kau | -nggau |
| 3sg | na- | -na | -ya | -nya |
| 1pl.incl | ta- | -nda | -ta | -nda |
| 1pl.excl | ma- | -ma | -kama | -nggama |
| 2pl | mi- (i-) | -mi | -kami (-kai) | -nggami (-nggai) |
| 3pl | da- | -da | -ha | -nja |

## Murui Huitoto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [-d͡ʒa]

### Etymology 1

Cognates include Minica Huitoto -ya and Nüpode Huitoto -ya.

#### Classifier

-ya
* Classifier for vehicles.

##### Derived terms
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Suffix

-ya
* Alternative form of -a

### References

* Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 134

## Pitjantjatjara
### Pronoun

-ya (third person plural nominative, bound form of tjana)
* they

#### Usage notes

Bound pronouns can be used instead of the regular "long form" pronouns. They act as clitics that attach to the last word of the first noun phrase in the sentence, or the conjunctions ka or munu if present.

#### Related terms

Pitjantjatjara personal pronouns (nominative case) :
| | Singular | Dual | Plural |
| First person | ngayulu (I) Bound form: -ṉa | ngali (we two) Bound form: -li | nganaṉa (we, more than two) Bound form: -la |
| Second person | nyuntu (you) Bound form: -n | nyupali (you two) | nyura (you, more than two) |
| Third person | paluṟu (he/she/it) | pula (they two) | tjana (they, more than two) Bound form: -ya |

## Quechua
### Suffix

-ya
* Transformative suffix: to become.
    tuta (“night, darkness”) → tutayay (“to become dark”)
    unu (“water, liquid”) → unuyay (“to become liquid ＝ to melt”)

#### Derived terms
## Swahili
### Alternative forms

* (after a vowel) -za

### Suffix

-ya
* (often with spirantization of the preceding consonant) causative suffix
    Near-synonyms: -isha/-esha, -iza/-eza
** used after verbs stems ending -k- (but not in -ek- or -ik-) with spirantization of the -k- to -sh-
    ‎-chemka (“to boil”) + ‎-ya → ‎-chemsha (“to bring to a boil”)
** used in some verbs interchangeably with -isha/-esha
    ‎-ogopa (“to fear”) + ‎-ya → ‎-ogofya (“to frighten”)
** (nonproductive) used to construct a causative verb with slightly different meaning
    ‎-ona (“to see”) + ‎-ya → ‎-onya (“to warn”)
    ‎-lala (“to sleep”) + ‎-ya → ‎-laza (“to put to bed”)

#### Derived terms

* Swahili causative verbs

## Teposcolula Mixtec
### Suffix

-ya
* Forms reverential terms.

#### Derived terms
## Ye'kwana
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [-ja]

### Etymology 1
#### Suffix

-ya
* Forms the singular of the recent past perfective tense of the verb ei (“to be”).
* Forms the singular of the distant past perfective tense of the verb ei (“to be”) when both the agent and patient (if there is one) of the verb are third-person.

##### Derived terms

* -yato

### Etymology 2
#### Suffix

-ya
* Allomorph of -a (nonpast or past imperfective suffix) used for stems that end in i.

### References

* Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, pages 215–216