ᴹQ. yasse adv. “there [yonder]; once upon a time” (Category: Pronoun)
A correlative appearing in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/97, 111), a combination of ᴹQ. ya “yonder” and the locative suffix ᴹQ. -sse. In The Etymologies of the 1930s, it was based on ᴹQ. yá “ago” and translated as “once upon a time” (Ety/YA).
References ✧ Ety/YA; PE22/124; PE23/97, 111
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| ya | “remote demonstrative” | ✧ PE23/97 (yasse); PE23/111 (yasse) | |
| -sse¹ | “in, at, on; locative” | ✧ PE23/111 | |
| yá | “formerly, ago, at that (distant) time, then (long ago)” | ✧ Ety/YA | |