Re: Equatives?

Quoting michael poxon <m.poxon@...>:

> Omeina has many degrees of comparison of adjectives, including:-
> 1) -tu (translating "fairly, quite...")
> 2) -dua (translating "...enough for/to...")
> 3) -ande ("very...")
> 4) -alden ("too... to/for")
> For example: Engu dunalden ondinalde na = A horse is too heavy to pick
> up
> (lit. Horse / heavy-too / for the raising / is
Tairezazh sports negative degrees of comparation; _taiks_ "big" yields
_metaiks_ "less big" and _sistaiks_ "least big" alongside _dataiks_ "bigger"
and _tshetaiks_ "biggest".

BTW, anyone know of an ALF justification for this one? It's hardly that wild,
but I don't think I've seen it in a natlang.

                                            Andreas

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