History

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

References

Matis Language