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Early Hick Lexicon — Interrogatives

Entries in the Interrogatives semantic field.

'aka /ʔa.ka/
what (interrogative) [Interrogatives]
Proto-Hick *haka
Basic question root with archaic animacy marking
'aker /ʔa.ker/
how (visible/known manner) (interrogative) [Interrogatives, Proximal, Manner]
Proto-Hick *haka-er-is
'akereth /ʔa.ke.reθ/
how (sensed manner) (interrogative) [Interrogatives, Medial, Manner]
Proto-Hick *haka-er-eth
'akerum /ʔa.ke.rum/
how (unknown manner) (interrogative) [Interrogatives, Distal, Manner]
Proto-Hick *haka-er-um
'aleth /ʔa.leθ/
who (sensed but not seen) (pronoun) — Used for referents that are heard or sensed but not visually perceived [Interrogatives, Medial Forms]
'aka-'al-eth
Used for heard/sensed but not seen referents
'alis /ʔa.lis/
who (visible/known person) (interrogative) [Interrogatives, Proximal, Personal]
Proto-Hick *haka-lis
'alum /ʔa.lum/
who (unknown person) (interrogative) [Interrogatives, Distal, Personal]
Proto-Hick *haka-al-um
'atal /ʔa.tal/
where (what-place-PROX.INAN) (interrogative) [Interrogatives, Proximal, Spatial]
Proto-Hick *haka-tal-is
'ater /ʔa.ter/
when (visible/known time) (interrogative) [Interrogatives, Proximal, Temporal]
Proto-Hick *haka-ter-is
'aterbran /ʔa.ter.bran/
before (lexinfo:SubordinatingConjunction) — Temporal metaphor using interrogative 'when' + 'dawn' [Time Terms, Interrogatives]
'atereth /ʔa.te.reθ/
when (sensed time) (interrogative) [Interrogatives, Medial, Temporal]
Proto-Hick *haka-ter-eth
'aterum /ʔa.te.rum/
when (unknown time) (interrogative) [Interrogatives, Distal, Temporal]
Proto-Hick *haka-ter-um
'ateth /ʔa.teθ/
where (sensed location) (interrogative) [Interrogatives, Medial, Spatial]
Proto-Hick *haka-tal-eth
'atum /ʔa.tum/
where (unknown location) (interrogative) [Interrogatives, Distal, Spatial]
Proto-Hick *haka-tal-um
'eteleth /ʔe.te.leθ/
when (sensed time) (interrogative) [Interrogatives, Medial, Temporal]
Proto-Hick *haka-tel-eth
'etelum /ʔe.te.lum/
when (unknown time) (interrogative) [Interrogatives, Distal, Temporal]
Proto-Hick *haka-tel-um