Re: 'come' and 'go' with directional affixes

Steg wrote:
> > In Akkadian, for example, a special ventive suffix is added
> > to indicate a change of perspective: > ana biitim iirub
> > to house-GEN enter.3Sg.PRT > 'he went into the house'
> >
> > ana biitim iirub-am
> > to house-GEN enter.3Sg.PRT-VEN
> > 'he came into the house'
>
> Whoa, tricky... i saw _ana_ and assumed it was the pronoun "I",
> like in Arabic and Aramaic. Crazy Akkadian, breaking all the
> Semitic rules!
There's a clitic form -anu (Babylonian) / -ani (Assyrian),
both "we", and a full form _anaaku_ "I" that I think are all
cognate with the form you mention here.
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