Entry
‑t‑/‑ht‑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 | derivational suffix |
| Form | ‑t‑ |
| Phonological Form | -ht- |
| Pre-Wendat Form | *‑ht‑ |
| Form | ‑ht‑ |
| Phonological Form | -ht- |
| Pre-Wendat Form | *‑ht‑ |
| Notes |
Note on usage:
The -t- form occurs before the habitual aspect-mood suffix, and the -ht- form occurs elsewhere. |
| Cross-references to manuscripts | |
Examples
Examples of the entry
- Chi hasehawiht !
Carry that far away!
- Hahnen’ hehawehtih ?
Where has he gone?
- Hahnen’ on’wahti’ hayahndawatehkwih eskwahchahtihatie’
From which side will you go upriver?
- hänienhwihtahnon’
he is ambidextrous, he knows how to do things from both sides, with both hands
- hänienhwihtih on’wahti’
to his right, toward his right
- hesketha’
I go back there often
- stan’ ta’tekehtahnde’
I’m not coming back
- stan’ ta’tekwayehtih
I will not return from [location]
- stan’ the’skehtahnde’
I’m not going to go back there
- stan’ the’yehtahnde’nd
I wasn’t going there, I was not intending to go there
- Teotia’yih ontahreht
he’s coming from Montreal
- tho ihchien’ ha’yeht hewetha’ de änen’enh
I’m going where my mother usually goes
- tho on’wahti’ eshotakhehtih
he has come back from there running, he started to flee again from that side