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Proto-Ryukyuan · reconstructed language

*-nai

suffix

Meaning

  1. Negativizes a verb in the irrealis stem.

Etymology / origin

From Proto-Japonic *-nu (verb negativizer).

  1. *-nu(jpx-pro)
  2. -nai (Proto-Ryukyuan)
  3. Relations: inh

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