#0: Grammatical Particles and Affixes.
| Reconstruction | Description |
|---|---|
| ME.2 | Prescriptive mood marker |
| ME.3 | With, and |
| MEI.1 | From |
| MEI.4 | Almost, nearly |
| MEQA.C | Predicative base |
| MO | And, with |
| MOQO | For |
| MUQA.B | Postposed verbal particle of deference or politeness (Clk) |
| NA.2 | Possessive particle (dominant possession): *na(a) |
| NA.3 | Past tense marker |
| NA.4 | Third person singular preposed subject pronoun |
| NAQA.2 | Lest |
| NE | Past tense marker |
| NEE | Sentence final interrogative particle, tag question, isn't it?: *ne(i) |
| NEI | Demonstrative: here, near speaker |
| NI.1 | Past tense marker |
| NI.2 | Indefinite article plural |
| NO | Belonging to, from, of (subordinate possessive): *no(o) |
| NOA.2 | Postposed particle signifying non-restriction; just, only, without limit, without result |
| NOKO.2 | Past continuative aspect marker |
| PAFA.* | Perhaps |
| PE | Or, whether: *p(e,o) |
| PE-AFA | Perhaps: *pe-a(h)a |
| PEE- | Be like |
| PEE-FEA | How? |
| PEE-HENA | (Be) like that (near you) |
| PEE-HENI | Like this |
| PEE-LAA | Like that (demonstrative manner adverbial) *pe(e)-laa |
| PUKE.6 | Prefix marking dual number |
| QAA-.2 | Morpheme indicating a point of future time: *qa(a)- |
| QAKI.2 | Preposition marking instrument |
| QANA-.2 | Morpheme indicating a point of past time |
| QAUA.2 | Negative imperative |
| QI | Ligative enclitic of possession: -Qi |
| QIKAI | Negative |
| QISI | Some, few (plural indefinite article) |
| QO | Sequential same-actor verbal particle: *(q)o |
| RAA | Demonstrative particle: there, yonder (not near speaker or addressee) |
| REIRA | There (a place already mentioned) |
| SA | Non-specific article |
| SAA.3 | Verbal particle |
| SAQA.2 | Family, clan |
| SE-TASI | A certain (one), a particular but unspecified one, another |
| SE.1 | Non-specific article |
| SE.2 | Because, since |
| SEI.2 | Particle of future location, or purpose. |
| SEQE.2 | Negative marker |
| SOKO-.3A | Just, exactly (with numerals) |
| SOKO-.3B | Alone, only, by -self (with pronouns) |
| T-AUA | Retrospective definitive, preposed to common nouns mentioned previously |
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