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===Etymology 2=== | ===Etymology 2=== | ||
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# ''plain negative infinitive/imperfective direct evidential of'' '''[[èlá]]''' | # ''plain negative infinitive/imperfective direct evidential of'' '''[[èlá]]''' | ||
====Creation and Usage Notes==== | ====Creation and Usage Notes==== | ||
Latest revision as of 15:58, 27 April 2024
Méníshè
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
wèlá (air class, plural wèláyà)
- song
- Lúchálèzhì jìrùvónàz ramé wèláyà ènò.
- You made weapons of your songs.
- -Adil (Motherland: Fort Salem, Episode 106)
- You made weapons of your songs.
- Lúchálèzhì jìrùvónàz ramé wèláyà ènò.
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Verb
wèlá
- plain negative infinitive/imperfective direct evidential of èlá
Creation and Usage Notes
| It is an etymological accident that the word for "to not sing" is homophonous with the word for "song". It's nearly impossible to confuse the two in a sentence (too much other stuff in between), but on a page like this, it must seem quite bizarre. Jessie and I decided early on that we'd have something very old and very basic for negation (the proto sound *u), and then separately came up with an etymology for the air class prefix that ended up having the same morphophonological alternation (i.e. [v] before [u], [w] before other vowels, and [u] otherwise). A happy accident that can't properly be captured on this wiki.
-David J. Peterson 15:23, 20 September 2020 (PDT) |