| (6) |
t ka
‘under’ |
|
|
sisi
|
|
|
table-gen.
|
-under-at
bottle
|
stay-pres.
|
|
|
|
|
| ‘There
is a bottle under the table’. |
| (7) |
 himi
‘since’ |
miya-himi
|
watmy
wa-li-ya
|
|
yesterday-since
rain
|
rain-past.-/not
|
|
|
|
|
| ‘It
has not rained since yesterday’. |
| (8) |
s ka ‘front’ |
|
a-ni
|
ng-ni
|
|
bu-pha
|
|
|
I-gen,
|
house-gen.
|
front-at
|
pro.
pre.-tree
|
stay-pres.
|
|
|
|
|
| ‘There is a tree
in front of my house.’ |
| (9) |
ul
‘behind’ |
ng-ni-ul
|
kuwa
|
tag-
|
|
housegen./-behind
|
well
|
stay-pres.
|
|
|
|
|
| ‘There is a well
behind our house’. |
| (10) |
phatar
‘outside’ |
|
bu-pha
|
phatar-
|
tha-ka
|
|
pron.pre.-/father
|
outside-at
|
go-past.
|
|
|
|
|
| ‘Father went
out’. |
| (11) |
bihi
‘inside’ |
b
tµy
|
|
hab-y
|
|
he
water
|
inside-at
|
enter-ing
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| tN-kha
stay-past. ‘He entered into water and stayed there’. |
| (12) |
kar
‘middle’ |
|
huk
|
|
nkar
|
ta-di
|
|
field
|
middle-in
|
house-on-/raised
platform
|
do-imp.
|
|
|
|
|
| ‘Build a hut
with raised platformin the field.’ |
| (13) |
gana ‘near’
: |
tµyma-gana w-
|
bu-pha
|
k-tr-ma
|
|
|
river-near-at
|
pron.
pre-tree
|
pron.
pre-big
|
stay-pres.
|
|
|
|
|
| ‘There is a big
tree at the side of the river.’ |
| (14) |
phayi
‘towards-’ |
b
|
|
phay-ni
|
phay-
|
|
he
pron-
|
pre.-jungle
|
towards
from
|
come-pres.
|
|
|
|
|
| ‘He comes from
the jungle side’ |
| 3.2.
The Verb |
Most of the Kokborok
verbs can be analyzed into monosyllabic verb-roots and a set of affixes.
Some of these affixes occur as verb-roots elsewhere. They also function
as adverbs and aspects.
|
