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Re: [jboske] da'a

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Subject: Re: [jboske] da'a
From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 07:04:58 -0500 (EST)
In-reply-to: <5.2.0.9.0.20030105114659.0324dec0@pop.east.cox.net> from "Robert LeChevalier" at Jan 05, 2003 12:01:47 PM

Robert LeChevalier scripsit:

> >Is {da'a} by itself {da'apa} or {da'asu'o}? The latter is
> >indeed equivalent to {me'iro}.
> 
> It is elliptical in the same way that all of the other omitted words are 
> elliptical. 

Well, no. CLL 18.8 specifies that "da'a" by itself is "da'apa",
"all but one". Further, in ordinal contexts it means "all but the last".

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