lemÌc. Lemizh grammar and dictionary

Lemizh / English dictionary


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pà.

to ask (interrogate) someone-dat about something-acc (see unit 16, Questions, imperative and exclamations)

là pÙla. to answer something-acc to someone-dat

Etymology

< NLem pi‑a
< LMLem pì‑a
< MLem pii‑a ‘sing’
< OLem pī‑
< PLem *pī‑, root present of
< PIE *pei̯h₂‑

The semantic connection to ‘sing’ is probably the rising tone at the end of questions (in older forms of Lemizh).

doublet of pevrà.

Cognates

OCS pojǫ ‘sing’