frapo and other -po genitives

Started by wm.annis, July 06, 2023, 03:40:46 PM

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wm.annis

As seen in the collab discord, a question on -po form genitives.

Quote from: Tan JalaKaltxì ma karyu!

I hope it's all good there. I had several questions about language which I couldn't find help with in any other place, but this one recently came to my mind again. It's whether the genitive form of frapo is frapeyä orfrapoä? And of all other -po pronouns, if to say so. I've heard an opinion that all -po pronouns do the same thing as po, being -peyä in the genitive but I was unable to find any confirmation of this. In my opinion, *frapeyä sounds natural, yet it would be great to know that it is the case, if possible.
All -po pronouns for a quick reference: 'awpo, fìpo, frapo, lapo, tsapo.

All the best,
Tan Jala

Quote from: Karyu PawlKaltxì, ma Tan Jala!

You're right—all -po pronouns follow the pattern for po itself. So the genitive of frapo is indeed frapeyä.

Eywa ngahu, ma tsmuk.

ta P.

(Quoted with permission.)

Toliman

Good to know, thanks for sharing :)

Plumps

#2
I thought we knew this already since 2013 ... :-\

I remember distinctly asking him about that at our Avatar Meet 2013 in Berlin

CORRECTION: It was fko back then, sorry about misremembering  :D

Vawmataw

Irayo ma Tan Jala for asking :)

IMO, the non-Frommerian rule would be that the genitive of all personal pronouns ends with -eyä, with e replacing the vowel that usually ends the pronoun. However, I'm not sure if it makes sense linguistically and if there are exceptions.
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