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so-ló	‘do it [the beneficiary being the listener]’
so-lŏ	‘do it [the beneficiaries being both he interlocutors]’
pfo-no	vu-ĭ-e	‘he has come’
he-idnt	come-prf-sntmrkr
pfo-no	vu-ī-e	‘it seem she has come’
he-idnt	come-hear say-sntmrkr

There are a few morphotonemic changes which haven’t been investigated in detail in this book. Some of them are given here for illustrative purposes.

ōcīrē	‘to rain’		[ō]cs	‘to thunder’
cr	‘rain’		ōc kōs	‘thunder’
y/āĭ/āyĭ		‘I [nom/erg]’
yĢ		‘I[oblique][excluding ergative except when it’san embedded subject,butembeddingdirectobject]’
l	+	ŏ	ą	lāŏ
imminenca	Q
aspect
in
A:	ta¹-la²-o³	‘[you are] about to² leave¹ ?³‘
B:	ta¹ -la²	‘[am] about to¹ leave² ‘

2.2.

VOWELS

i				u
	e		o
		a

1.	īh	‘footprint’
	h	‘copse of tall bushes and plants with a tree here and a tree there’
2.		Ģn	‘to press [tr. and intr.]
		ōnĢ	‘father’s sister’
3		j	‘be big’
		ōjĭ	‘size’
4		ōpr	‘pod with seeds ; hull ; legume’
		ōprĭ	‘cup made of wood’ horn or bamboo’
5		ōm	‘price ; cost’
		īmĭ	‘tail’

i vs a

1.	ōs	‘swamp ; marsh’
	ōsį	‘cloth’
2.	ōn	‘laughter’
	ōn	‘dress’
3	pą	‘moss’
	pą	‘kind of shawl’
4	ōm	‘mouth’
	omu	‘price ; cost’

i vs e

1.	ōkrě	‘nest’
	ōkrĭ	‘poison’
2.	ōprě	‘shanty ; field hut’
	ōprĭ	‘cup made either of wood, bamboo or horn’
3	ōbĭ	‘yam’
	ōbě	‘arm’
4	lģcł	‘kind of edible honey bee found on the high rocks’
	tŏllēcū	‘a type of kite, a scavenger bird’
5	lģkhś	‘a frog type, black, and bigger than frog’
	[tŏl] lēkhū	‘a type of kite [scavenger bird]’

e vs a

1.	ōpč	‘grand father’
	ōpį	‘flower’

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