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Verbs of motion are often used idiomatically and in proverbs. | Verbs of motion are often used idiomatically and in proverbs. | ||
==Lexical-periphrastic pairs== | |||
Some verbs, whose meanings are almost synonymous, come in pairs. One of these verbs expresses the concept with a separate lexical item, the second periphrastically. These also convey differing semantic nuances. The typical case quote is ''tzunka'' "to kill" and ''tima darki nim'' "to execute" (literally "to send to death", cf. "to put to death"). | |||
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