-mez

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ـمز (-mez, -maz), from Proto-Turkic *-meŕ.

• IPA^(key): /mez/

-mez

1. Negative aorist suffix.
2. Makes negative aorist participles.

   ‎inanıl- (“to be believed”) + ‎-maz → ‎inanılmaz (“unbelievable”)

• The suffix takes the form -me before the first-person suffixes -im (which in this case takes the form -m) and -iz.
  • ‎git- + ‎-mez + ‎-im → ‎gitmem (“I do/will not go”)
  • ‎git- + ‎-mez + ‎-iz → ‎gitmeyiz (“we do/will not go”)

• -er
• -ebilir

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “+AsI”, in Nişanyan Sözlük