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

From:Thomas Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Monday, February 28, 2005, 1:11
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. ========================================================================= Thomas Wier "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally, Dept. of Linguistics because our secret police don't get it right University of Chicago half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of 1010 E. 59th Street Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter. Chicago, IL 60637