n-a
See also: Appendix:Variations of "na"
Irish
[edit]Determiner
[edit]n-a
- alternative form of a (“his, her, their”)
Particle
[edit]n-a
- alternative form of a (indirect relative particle)
Contraction
[edit]n-a
- alternative form of ina
Usage notes
[edit]For the determiner and the particle, this form is found in older texts after certain vowel-final prepositions, e.g. faoi n-a (“under/about his, under/about her, under/about their, under/about which”), i n-a (“in his, in her, in their, in which”), le n-a (“with his, with her, with their, with which”), ó n-a (“from his, from her, from their, from which”). In modern texts these forms are written as single words: faoina, ina, lena, óna.
Nǀuu
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]n-a
- alternative form of na (“I, me”)
References
[edit]- Appel, Ariel (compiler). (2013). "We are Nǀuu hunters" "C-a ǀx'oa Nǀuu-ki".
- Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena and Hirosi Nakagawa. “Linguistic Features and Typologies in Languages Commonly Referred to as ‘Khoisan’.” The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics (2019): n. pag.