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<div dir="auto">Dear Ellen,<br>
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in Mandarin (and many other Sinitic languages):<br>
<em>dào </em>到 `to, until, up to; to arrive, to be able to (similarly to French <em>arriver à faire qqch</em>)’<br>
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Example:<br>
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(1) 到 今 天<br>
<em>dào jīn tiān</em><br>
until this day<br>
`until today'<br>
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(2) 看 得 到<br>
<em>kàn de dào</em><br>
see degree arrive<br>
`able to see (something)'<br>
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I hope this helps.<br>
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From Hong Kong,
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<div name="messageReplySection">On 5 Jan 2021, 8:12 PM +0800, Smith-Dennis, Ellen <E.Smith-Dennis@warwick.ac.uk>, wrote:<br>
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Could you help?<br>
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<span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">I'm looking for languages where the word for 'able, can' is polysemous/homophonous
with 'until, up to, for (X amount of time)'. This is the case in Papapana (Austronesian, Papua New Guinea) and Tok Pisin (pidgin/creole, PNG) so I'm especially (but not only!) interested in languages of the Pacific region.<br>
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