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Re: Circumfixes?

From:Douglas Koller, Latin & French <latinfrench@...>
Date:Friday, June 8, 2001, 16:01
Roger wrote:

>Comparable to Indonesian usage: ...kedalam kaleng '(to) inside~into the >can' more lit. to interior of the can. Cf. e.g "correct" kedalaman kaleng >kotor 'the inside of the can is dirty' (the two ke- prefixes are not >identical!) ~ colloq. dalamnya kaleng kotor. Still, the status of dalam is >odd; it's also an adjective meaning 'deep'-- how about "li3"?
No. "Li3" is "in, inside". Kou