Re: narethanaal (or 'the ramblings of a deranged linguistics student')

On Wednesday 12 December 2001 22:50, Roger Mills wrote:

> Henrik Theiling wrote:
> >You can play with this, e.g. `John is not eating.' with the
> > opposite marker. :-) (Maybe I'll put a new idiom into the
> > lexicon...)
>
> Indeed.  Though tra/nahan would probably mean 'to fast'.
Yes, like Ilaini:

Aine na cronat - Aine doesn't eat (perhaps she's had enough already,
or she doesn't like the food)
Aine nacronat - Aine is fasting (possibly for religious reasons).

   Irina

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