Early Hick Lexicon — Grammatical Terms
Entries in the Grammatical Terms semantic field.
- -en /-en/
- that (inanimate, visible, medial) (suffix) [Demonstratives, Grammatical Terms]
- Proto-Hick *ena
- -eth /-eθ/
- that (medial, inanimate, hidden, sensed) (suffix) [Demonstratives, Grammatical Terms]
- Proto-Hick *etha
- -is /-is/
- this (inanimate, sensed, proximal) (suffix) [Demonstratives, Grammatical Terms]
- Proto-Hick *isa
- -nat /nat/
- want to, desire to (desiderative suffix) (suffix) [Grammatical Terms, Verbal Morphology]
- Grammaticalized from full verb 'desire' to desiderative suffix
- -tan /-tan/
- that (animate, visible, medial) (suffix) [Demonstratives, Grammatical Terms]
- Proto-Hick *tana
- -thir /-θir/
- that (medial, animate, sensed) (suffix) [Demonstratives, Grammatical Terms]
- Proto-Hick *thira
- -ʔis /-ʔis/
- this (animate, sensed, proximal) (suffix) [Demonstratives, Grammatical Terms]
- Proto-Hick *ʔisa
- 'irur /ʔi.rur/
- repetition, again (noun) [Grammatical Terms, Motion Terms]
- Proto-Hick *heru-heru
- From reduplicated form of *heru 'action'. Forms grammaticalized iterative marker -rur/-ur
- ewes /e.wes/
- together with; together (lexinfo:Adposition) — Functions both as pre-absolutive adverbial marker and independent lexical item [Basic Terms, Grammatical Terms]
- Proto-Hick *ʔelu-lawes
- From instrumental *ʔelu "by means of" + *lawes "consume", showing semantic development from "consuming with" to general accompaniment
- mo /mo/
- general negation prefix: not, non-, mis- (lexinfo:Prefix) — Standard Early Hick negation prefix, contrasting with regional western im- as a privative prefix. [Negation, Derivational Morphology, Grammatical Terms]
- Proto-Hick *muru
- General negation prefix grammaticalized from Proto-Hick *muru 'darkness, absence'.