Compound Verbs
Preform + Verb
Observation
| ᒥᔪ |
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ᒌᔑᑳᐤ |
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ᒥᔪᒌᔑᑳᐤ |
| miyu |
+ |
chiishikaau |
= |
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miyuchiishikaau |
| good |
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it is day |
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it is a nice day |
A new verb can be derived by adding a preform / preverb) in front of it. When the resulting word has a meaning of its own and becomes a common word, it is usually spelled as one word. See Spelling Manual.
See also: Preverb + Verb Final.
| APA: |
Junker, M.-O., & MacKenzie, M. (2013). East Cree Word Formation (Northern Dialect). In The Interactive East Cree Reference Grammar. Retrieved from [URL] |
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| MLA: |
Marie-Odile Junker and Marguerite MacKenzie. East Cree Word Formation (Northern Dialect). In The Interactive East Cree Reference Grammar. 2013. Web. [date] |
[URL] = website address, beginning with “http://” [Date] = the date you accessed the page, styled as follows: 13 Dec. 2015
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