Frédéric Mistral / Poet and Leader in Provence

by Charles Alfred Downer

-au, -alo.

This is the form of the widely used suffix -al. Mistral uses paternau for paternal, and also the adjective formed upon paire, father, peirenau, peirenalo, fatherly.

bourg, city.
bourgau, bourgalo, civil.

-edo (fem.).

pin, pine.
pinedo, pine-grove.
clapo, stone.
claparedo, stony plain.
óulivo, olive.
óulivaredo, olive-orchard.

-èire, -erello.

This suffix corresponds to the suffix -aire, mentioned above. It is appended to the stem of verbs not of the first conjugation.

courre, to run.
courrèire, courerello, runner.
legi, to read.
legèire, legerello, reader.

-eja.