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Morphemic form: {aa(j)}*
New orthography: aa-
Old orthography: â-
Sources: [MFSJLK10], [SK71], [JP67], [SB03]
Combinations: View list
Right sandhi: Irregular

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

According to Kleinschmidt [SK71], this morpheme is actually the same as the 'vocative' enclitic *{aa}, but here used as a prefix. It may be prefixed to any non-anaphoric demonstrative pronoun (i.e. without the other prefix {ta(ð)}*), albeit it is usually only used in the absolutive case (either singular or plural). The meaning is verbal: 'it is there!' or 'there it is!' (and in plural: 'there they are!'), where 'there' is the position indicated by the demonstrative.


Right sandhi:

The parenthetical segment (j) is injected whenever the prefix is added to any vowel-initial demonstrative.

With the demonstrative {uv}D in absolutive singular, the combination may optionally contract by dropping one /a/ from the prefix and not inject /j/. Thus, {aa(j)}* + {uv}D + D{ABS.sg} can yield two different forms:

The two forms can be used interchangeably.


Meanings and examples

Where 'there' is the position indicated by the demonstrative to which this is prefixed.

  • aamanna, here it is! [SK71]
  • aana/aajuna, here it is! [SK71]
  • aajinnga, it is over there! [SK71]
  • aamakku, aaku, aajuku, aajikku, aasakku, here/over there/down there they are! [SK71]

    Note that these are built from the absolutive plural forms of the demonstratives.


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