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-man
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In exceptional cases, the suffix -man, a grammaticalization of the noun man man and therefore actually a suffixoid, can take an adverbial base. Two cases are relevant: foaroan in front > foaroanman highly placed man and tusken between > tuskenman mediator.

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The suffix may also take other base categories; nouns are the most important ones. For more information, see therefore the topic on -man with noun as base.

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