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asiniikaa vii

there is (a lot of) rock or stone, there are (many) rocks or stones



asiniikaa 0s ind; asiniikaag 0s conj; esiniikaag 0s ch-conj; asiniikaamagad 0s ind aug; asiniikaang loc; Stem: /asiniikaa-/

Note on locatives. Inanimate intransitive verbs describing natural features also often occur as locative nouns ending in /-ng/ with the meaning in, at, or to that kind of place. These nouns, derived from the verb with an added final /-w/, rarely appear without the locative ending and are generally not given in this dictionary as main entries. Their attested locative forms appear in the entries for the underlying verbs and are marked as loc.

asiniikaa /asiniikaa-/: /asiny-/ stem of asin na ; /-kaa/
it is present, is abundant

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Word Family

asin na stone, a stone; rock, a rock
(verb of abundance) asiniikaa vii there is (a lot of) rock or stone, there are (many) rocks or stones (verb of being) asiniiwan vii
  1. it is of rock or stone
  2. it is rock-hard
 (verb of being) asiniiwi vai
  1. it (animate) is of rock or stone
  2. s/he is rock-hard
 (derived noun) asiniins na stone, a stone; rock, a rock
(verb of possession) odasiniinsimi vai s/he has gall stones

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