onsa-/ons-Please note that any Wendat form with one or two hyphens attached to it is not a word. The hyphens indicate that the form must take a prefix, a suffix, or both, in order to create a full word in Wendat. Wendat forms with hyphens cannot be used on their own. |
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| Definition |
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| Part of Speech | prepronominal prefix |
onsa- |
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| Phonological Form | ǫsa- |
| Pre-Wendat Form | *ǫʦa- |
ons- |
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| Phonological Form | ǫs- |
| Pre-Wendat Form | *ǫʦ- |
| Notes |
Note on usage:
ons-: This form of the factual and repetitive prefix occurs before the following pronominal prefixes: the second person patient prefixes, the second person dual and plural agent prefixes, and the first person inclusive dual and plural agent prefixes. |
Examples for entry
- onsahatakhe’
he’s coming back running
- onsahonwa’iay
they took revenge on him
- onsayaka’ de aonyarahskwanhnen’
I abandoned the thought of leaving
- tonsaonywäa’tahkwen’ de hoen’ah
she just took her son away from us (who, for example, had come to visit us)