'at
See also: Appendix:Variations of "at"
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Alteration (apheresis) of that, attested since Middle English at, atte (“that”, relative pronoun). Compare Old Norse at (“that”, relative pronoun).
Pronoun
[edit]'at
- (colloquial) Reduced form of that.
- What’s ’at? (meaning What is that?)
- I've never seen anything like ’at.
- ’At a boy!
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[edit]O'odham
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[edit]Verb
[edit]'at
- third-person singular perfect indicative of 'o
- Gogs 'at hi꞉n.
- The dog barked.
See also
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| imperfective | perfective | imperfective | perfective | ||
| first person | long | 'añ | 'ant | 'ac | 'att |
| short | ñ | nt | c | tt | |
| second person | long | 'ap | 'apt | 'am | 'amt |
| short | p | pt | m | mt | |
| third person | long | 'o | 'at | 'o | 'at |
| short | t | t | |||
References
[edit]- Zepeda, Ofelia (1983), A Tohono Oʼodham Grammar, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, published after 1986, page 61