Re: "In spite of"

Michael Poxon wrote:
>
>Oh, at last, some actual conlanging!
>In Omina, "in spite of" is rendered by the preposition begi "opposite,
>against" plus the genitive (begi governs the locative in the former cases):
>so "in spite of them" = begi erean (cf. begi erea "opposite to them")
>Mike
>
>How do y'all express this meaning, whether as as conjunction or
>adposition or case or whatever, in your conlang or in natlangs
>you know?  I'm particularly interested in languages where it's derived
>from some more basic root rather than being an unanalyzable
>particle.
I think this topic came up some time back, I know I tried but failed to
create a Kash equivalent. This has given me food for thought.

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