Affrication Diminutive Marker (Re: butterfly)

Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Tue Nov 4 16:45:52 UTC 2003


On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Rory M Larson wrote:
> I've never really understood the c^he part of it though.  I gather that
> it is the positional thE, used to indicate a point in time, transposed
> into grandmother speech?

That's my analysis of it, anyway - the inanimate upright positional
article-cum-temporal conjunction.  It's that which induces me to see egaN
here as 'to be like'.



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