ponă (05_Determiners in Asaxi)


ponă

ponă

Pitch Accent

  • Morae: po · nă
  • Pattern: L · L
  • Class: atonal

Grammatical function

  • Type: Determiner (Specific Indefinite)
  • Agreement: Warm Nouns
  • Meaning: “A certain”, “A specific (but unnamed)”, “One”.

Example sentence

Example 1

  • Asaxi: ă ponă ŕimshá zèxiŕa.
  • English: There was a certain lemur.
  • Polish: x

Etymology

po (Certainty - likely from Polish pewien) + -nă (Warm Suffix).