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al'ali
CVC-
1
A disturbance.
Occurs only as a negative set clause. Mi'id al'ali `there is no disturbance'; i.e., there is peace, quiet with no commotion, fighting, sickness.
Mi'id al'alih mumpapattoy ad ugwan.
There is peace with regards to fighting now.
A negative set clause consists of a negative, mi'id, none, followed by a noun which is the form generally of a semantic action or state, such as disturbance, impatience, evidence, mistake, and the like. The noun is either possessed or not possessed, and this feature distinguishes two kinds of negative set clauses. 1) Possessed negative set clause; A possessed noun of the set clause is followed by a possessive pronoun -na and a referent noun or noun phrase, or by a possessive ligature -n (if the noun ends in a vowel) and a possessive noun or noun phrase. These are grammatical variants with little or no semantic contrast.
Mi'id poto'nah puntamūa' or mi'id poto' di puntamūa'.
There is no accuracy regarding (or of) what I am working on.
The following occur as possessed nouns in a possessed negative set clause: āmang, amnah, bihu, poto', pī'iw, tāgad. 2) Unpossessed negative set clause; A few nouns occurring as constituents of a negative set clause do not occur possessed. Rather, the clause is expanded by a referent phrase consisting of hi (or variant -h if the noun ends in a vowel) or ay (or variant -n if the noun ends in a vowel) plus a noun phrase or verb phrase (which is thus nominalized).
Mi'id am'amungit hi tigo' ti helhelong.
There is nothing at all that I can see because it is dark, (lit. The evidence is nil with reference to what I can see...)
The following occur as unpossessed nouns in a negative set clause: al'ali, ma'al'ali, am'amungit, kutkutīaw.
2
ma'al'ali.
Impatience, intolerance.
Occurs only as a negative set clause, as described above: mi'id ma'al'ali There is gentleness, patience, tolerance, of a person in relation to her or his relations with others.
Mi'id ma'al'ali ay Hudyay an mun'ālun hidin penghāna ti nahamad di inatna.
There is gentleness with reference to Hudyay the go-between of long ago because what he did was just.
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