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Example 41-133
eev jaandaa maaket
eev
1sg
jaa-andaa
pst
-go
maaket
market
I went to the market.
Comment:
/jafoy/, the suppletive past of
andaa
could presumably be used, as could
bazaar
, thus (in unmarked word order):
eev bazaar jafoy
.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Smith 1974-5
: 2103
Language:
Sri Lanka Portuguese
by
Ian R. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Motion-to and motion-from: Differentiation
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