Mateis
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Suffixes
For individuals:
- -wivan : underling, honorific used for someone beneath your standing
- -modin : equal, honorific used for someone equal to your standing
- -kin : lord, honorific used for someone of higher standing i.e a superior or noble
- -karan : king, reserved honorific for the Matis king
For adjectives and passive forms
- -a : masculine singular
- -ae : feminine singular
- -ai : plural (masculine or feminine)
For names
Note: in the following list of suffixes the matis word "matal" is used in examples, which is the verb "to fight"
- -e : singular
- -ei : plural
- -ena : a contraction of "-e nar". Marker indicating a person performing an action, ex. matalena = the (male) warrior, one who fights
- -enae : feminine form of -ena, the person performing the action is a female, ex. matalenae = the (female) warrior
- -enai : plural of -ena ex : matalenai : the warriors
- -a/ae/ai : marker, used in the passive voice, to indicate the person or object undergoing an action, ex. matala = the battle, the fighting