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General

Morphemic form: V{(m)mat}
New orthography: +mat, -mmat
Old orthography: -mat, -ngmat
Sources: [CR88], [CWSL51], [SB03], [FAJN19]
Combinations: View list
Left sandhi: Default

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

This is the intransitive causative ending for 3sg Subject, denoting 'when/because he Vb'ed'.

Here in the 3rd person, the mood marker is {(m)m}, and the 3sg person marker is {at}. Note that this is a dependent mood, which uses the ergative person markers, but the person marker here is an older form of the corresponding possessive marker, cf. N{-ata}.


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