Re: The Shift of Antecedent Prepositions to Suffixes ????

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Doug Dee <AmateurLinguist@A...> wrote:

>As for nouns, a word for "back" (the body part) can come to
>mean "behind"; sometimes a word for "ground" comes to mean "below";
>sometimes a word for "head" comes to mean "above" or "on top of."
Senyecan has a number of postpositions derived from verbs:

àlïa - "after, behind" from "to alienate, estrange."
ànta - "before, facing" from "to oppose, face."
cèmta - "along(side of)" from "to parallel, lie alongside of"
cöìta - "in honor of" from "to honor, award"
dèçöa - "to-, at-, the right of" from "right hand" & làµa "left"
með- - "middle of" from "to mediate, negotiate"
mèta - "compared to" from "to trace, measure, calibrate"
mòòda - "in case of" from "meet, encounter, happen"
把la - "with, by means of" from "to tool"
mòòga - "besides, in addition to" from "to take more, add (on)"
nèèµÿa - "with respect to" from "to approach"
sììða - "straight to" from "to head toward, be bound for"
sùna - "(along) with" from "to go with, accompany"
tììrsa - "in spite of" from "to defy"
tììva - "instead of" from "to put, place, set"
vèèra - "astride" from "to bridge, span"

Charlie
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