✶-nē prep. “past tense”

✶-nē prep. “past tense”

References ✧ PE18/101, 106; PE22/131; VT49/30

Glosses

• “past tense suffix” ✧ PE18/106

Variations

• nē ✧ PE18/106; PE22/131; VT49/30
• -nē̆ ✧ PE18/101
• n-ē̆ ✧ PE18/101
• n-ē ✧ PE22/131

Related

• n-ē̆ in competion with -nē̆ ✧ PE18/101
• n-ē had become parts of a unified system [with] -nē ✧ PE22/131

Element In

• ᴺQ. !†nessë “past tense, (lit.) nē-ness”

Derivatives

• > ᴺS. !nî “once, at one time; was”
• > Q. né “ago, behind (earlier time); yes (it was so)” ✧ VT49/31
  • ⇒ Q. néya “once, at one time” ✧ VT49/31
    • ⇒ ᴺQ. !lanéya “recently, not long ago”
    • ⇒ Q. andanéya “long ago, once upon a time” ✧ VT49/31
• > T. né “ago, behind (earlier time); yes (it was so)” ✧ VT49/31
  • ⇒ T. andané “long ago, once upon a time” ✧ VT49/31

ᴹ✶-nē suf. “past suffix”

Reference ✧ PE22/96 ✧ -nḗ “past suffix”

Elements

nē

“was; then, ago”

suffix

✧ PE22/96 (nḗ)