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- Kat(A)
Indeed
Part of speech:
(Emphatic enclitic participle)
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Notes:
(Editor - an 'enclitic' is a word pronounced with so little emphasis that it is shortened and forms part of the preceding word eg n't in can't. 'Emphatic' means that it adds an emphasis to another word when it is added to the end. In the example 'windya-kat', 'windya' means 'where?'. 'Windya-kat' means 'where indeed?!')
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Suffix Communication
Example Phrases
English:
Where indeed? I don't know!
Language:
Windya-kat.
English:
He is bending his knees, he is kneeling down
Language:
Milpa-milpa-kat pathingguk.
Associated Audio
Description:
-kat(a)_indeed
Author:
Laura Ross
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