| These two are used
interchangeably as genetives of anything material object, act, feeling,
thought, speech or other abstract nouns, governed by nouns depicting
part, place, age, price, dimension etc: |
|
otera? or
oterea?
|
(ha i )
‘(share) in the field’
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lntum ra?
(jagar)
|
(tal‘k) about
the name’.
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| 3.1.2.1.3. ren-phrase:
-ren is generally suffixed to the inanimate and is governed by the
animate. This genetive is used for indicating age, place, price
or time of presence or action, as in: |
|
da?ren (coke)
|
‘(the
frog) of the water’
|
|
moiod sirmaren
|
‘(girl) of
one year’
|
hola ren (ho o)
|
‘(the man)
of (whome we saw or with whom we dealt etc.)yesterday’.
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| But in cases where
close relationships like of parent-child or husband-wife are expressed
this genetive may be suffixed to animate nouns, also even to proper
names: |
egaren
(ho-hopon)
|
‘(issues)
of the mother’
|
sida kuiren
(hon)
|
‘(child) of
the first wife’
|
durga-ren
(kui)
|
‘(wife) of
Durga!’
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| 3.1.2.1.4. ta?ren-phrase:
This is a compound phrase of ta? and ren, where ta? stands for continuation
or proximity of place or time. Like /ren/ it also may be suffixed
to both animate or inanimate but is governed by animate nouns only,
as in: |
|
hatuta?ren
(meromko)
|
‘(the goats)
of the village’
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|
tuiuta?ren
(meromko)
|
‘(the goats)
near the jackal’
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| ta?ra?
is the counterpart of ta?ren, because ta?ra? is while suffixed to
both inanimate and animate it is governed by inanimate nouns only: |
hatu ta?ra?
(oa?)
|
‘(house) of
the village’
|
kula ta?ra?
(oa?)
|
‘(house) of
the tiger’
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| 3.1.2.1.5.
ten-phrase: It may be suffixed to any noun but is governed generally
by animate and occasionally by inanimate. It depicts instrumentality
and can be translated by ‘of’ of ‘by’: |
soma nutum-tem
(koa)
|
‘(a boy) by
the name of (or named) Soma’
|
|
also, sarjom-nutum-ten(daru)
|
‘(a tree)
named sarjom’.
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| But,
/ten/ has the inanimate counterpart in /tea?/, where the latter
is governed by inanimate nouns. As for example, instead of the above,
the following construction would be more universal: |
|
sarjom nutum-tea?
(daru)
|
‘(a
tree) named sarjom’.
|
or , rean
tea? (da?)
|
‘(water) to
take bath with’.
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| tea?
more frequently is used for nominal constructions, impersonally,
and hence has restricted use as adjectival. See the following nominals: |
|
olkentea?
|
‘that, with
which something has been written’
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|
oltea?
|
‘that, with
which something is written, i.e., pen’
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|
olkedtea?
|
‘that, which
some one has written’.
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| The
impersonal a? is also used with the same function: |
|
jomea? ‘that, which is eaten,
i.e., food’
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| 3.1.2.2.
Participal adjective phrases: |
| A number
of verbal cosntructions are used as adjcetival phrases, when they
qualify the following noun. The perfect marker forms are suffixed
to the verb base and together they turn to be an adjective. The
bare verb roots suffixed to a noun are indicator of the doer, where
such nouns are complimentary to the verbs. All such phrases may
function also as a clause in a sentence. |
| 3.1.2.2.1.
Bare verb root suffixed to the noun: |
The
verb root is not a bound but it is loosely bound to the preceding
noun, together forming a single unit of adjective phrase:
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