-avas

== Old Galician-Portuguese == === Etymology === Inherited from Latin -ābās. === Suffix === -avas (1st conj.) a suffix indicating the second-person singular indicative imperfect of a verb in -ar ‎amar (“to love”) + ‎-avas → ‎amavas (“[You] used to love”) ‎cantar (“to sing”) + ‎-avas → ‎cantavas (“[You] used to sing”) ==== Descendants ==== Galician: -abas Portuguese: -avas == Portuguese == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese -avas, from Latin -ābās. Compare Galician and Spanish -abas. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: (Brazil) -avɐs, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -avɐʃ === Suffix === -avas (non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix) a suffix indicating the second-person singular indicative imperfect of a verb in -ar ‎amar (“to love”) + ‎-avas → ‎amavas (“[You] used to love”) ‎cantar (“to sing”) + ‎-avas → ‎cantavas (“[You] used to sing”) ==== See also ==== -ias == Spanish == === Suffix === -avas feminine plural of -avo