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While these still serve somewhat similar functions in both languages, they work quite differently on a syntactic level. | While these still serve somewhat similar functions in both languages, they work quite differently on a syntactic level. | ||
Reduplication seems to have formed frequentatives already in PAI as reflexes show up in Proto-Ash as well as modern Ish. In the latter it forms the continuous aspect whereas in Ash the reduplicated forms seem to simply have become separate words or to have replaced the non-reduplicated forms altogether. | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
! colspan="2" | PAI | |||
! colspan="2" | Ash | |||
! colspan="2" | Ish | |||
|- | |||
| {{ash|*kaw~kaw-}} | |||
| "whirl, whorl, cycle, wrap" | |||
| → *kaw~kaw-ar → *ku~kwa: → {{ash|goa}} | |||
| "be/move around, elapse" | |||
| → {{ash|qagow /kˣa.kaɰ/}} | |||
| "be passing (of time, weather)" | |||
|} | |||
===Deixis=== | ===Deixis=== | ||