ᴹQ. laka adj. and pron. “much (abundant), a great quantity” (Category: Much, Many)
An adjective for “much” in the sense “much (abundant), a great quantity” in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/104). This adjective is used when a quantity rather than a countable set of things, as in i atan harya laca malta “the man has much gold”. It can used with a partitive genitive as well, in the singular or the plural laca malto “a great quantity of gold” or lacar malto “great quantities of gold”. Note that lacar uses a noun plural rather than an adjective plural, because in this context it is being used substantively.
References ✧ PE23/104
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| lakar | plural | “great quantities” | ✧ PE23/104 |
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| lak- | “a large amount of (any amount less than the whole)” |
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