dema
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See also: demà
Old English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
dēman (“to judge”) + -a (agent-noun suffix)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
dēma m
Declension[edit]
Declension of dema (weak)
Synonyms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Middle English: deme
Sumerian[edit]
Romanization[edit]
dema
- Romanization of 𒅗𒄭 (dema)
West Makian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From de (“I”) + ma (“that”). Compare dene.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
dema (possessive prefix ti)
- (emphatic) first-person singular pronoun, I there
- (Can we date this quote?), “Nimama dofono”:
- dema takarja wayo
- I do not work
See also[edit]
West Makian personal pronouns
independent | possessive prefix | |
---|---|---|
1st person singular | de | ti |
2nd person singular | ni | ni |
3rd person singular | me | mVan., dVinan. |
1st person plural inclusive | ene | nV |
1st person plural exclusive | imi | mi |
2nd person plural | ini | fi |
3rd person plural | eme | di |
- V indicates the expected assimilated vowel of the following noun, following standard West Makian vowel harmony.
References[edit]
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[1], Pacific linguistics
Categories:
- Old English terms suffixed with -a (agent noun)
- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old English lemmas
- Old English nouns
- Old English masculine nouns
- Old English masculine n-stem nouns
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- ang:Occupations
- Sumerian non-lemma forms
- Sumerian romanizations
- West Makian compound terms
- West Makian terms with IPA pronunciation
- West Makian lemmas
- West Makian pronouns
- West Makian terms with quotations