Entry
onta‑/ont‑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 |
| Form | onta‑ |
| Phonological Form | ǫta- |
| Pre-Wendat Form | *ǫta‑ |
| Form | ont‑ |
| Phonological Form | ǫt- |
| Pre-Wendat Form | *ǫt‑ |
| Notes |
Note on usage:
ont‑: This form 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. |
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Examples
Examples of the entry
- a’tere’ iwahsenh iyahonwayeh yahonwïio’ ontawehnde’
there are eighty ships coming
- ha’ra’ tho ontayakonhchiouten’
I’m only coming in for a moment
- ne ontayehchiaht de änenhawenh yehen’
I used up all of my corn
- öne ontaënywikhenhatie’
when the corn starts to flower
- ontahäa’tenha’
he fell from above
- ontahäa’tenha’
he fell from up there
- ontahoa’ta’tariha’t
the fever just hit him, the fever is hitting him now
- ontaonywayenronhatie’
it will soon be spring for us
- ontawatoiahnde’
the storm is coming
- Teotia’yih ontahreht
he’s coming from Montreal
- tontawathorathe’
the cold is going to return